{"id":350433,"date":"2020-05-08T12:40:42","date_gmt":"2020-05-08T07:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=350433"},"modified":"2020-05-08T12:40:42","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T07:10:42","slug":"efforts-of-2000-behind-air-india-express-flights-that-flew-malayalis-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/efforts-of-2000-behind-air-india-express-flights-that-flew-malayalis-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Efforts of 2,000 behind Air India Express flights that flew Malayalis home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KOCHI: Things weren\u2019t that easy during the lockdown and finally when two special Air India Express flights touched down in Cochin and Karipur international airports on Thursday ferrying Malayalis from Abu Dhabi and Dubai, it was a two-week-long coordinated efforts of over 2,000 people nation-wide that enabled the airliner to successfully undertake first phase of repatriation flights. The first phase of repatriation that began on May 7 will continue till May 13.<\/p>\n<p>Right from identifying the flight crew to providing them accommodation and transporting them to the airports concerned during the lockdown period, the airliner had to ensure that all those involved in the mission strictly adhered to Covid safety protocol. \u201cOur first challenge was to identify the crew for the mission who have been stuck at their homes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KOCHI: Things weren\u2019t that easy during the lockdown and finally when two special Air India Express flights touched down in Cochin and Karipur international airports on Thursday ferrying Malayalis from Abu Dhabi and Dubai, it was a two-week-long coordinated efforts of over 2,000 people nation-wide that enabled the airliner to successfully undertake first phase of repatriation flights. The first phase of repatriation that began on May 7 will continue till May 13. Right from identifying the flight crew to providing them accommodation and transporting them to the airports concerned during the lockdown period, the airliner had to ensure that all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[208,130,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-350433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}