Over 160 Indian citizens from Chicago in the US arrived here on Sunday on board an Air India flight, the ninth such service to reach the city since the beginning of the Vande Bharat Mission to repatriate people from the country stranded due to coronavirus lockdown.
The AI 126 flight arrived via Delhi at the international airport here at 4.45 AM, airport sources said. The passengers were serviced through the fully sanitised international arrivals of the main passenger terminal of the airport, they said.
This is the ninth Vande Bharat evacuation flight to land in the city. To facilitate the arriving passengers and aircraft crew, the airport has kept the international arrivals and the entire stretch right from aerobridge to arrivals ramp fully sanitised and fumigated.
