{"id":352262,"date":"2020-05-20T11:51:13","date_gmt":"2020-05-20T06:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=352262"},"modified":"2020-05-20T12:14:55","modified_gmt":"2020-05-20T06:44:55","slug":"covid-19-air-india-flies-canadian-citizens-home-to-bring-back-stranded-indians-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/covid-19-air-india-flies-canadian-citizens-home-to-bring-back-stranded-indians-tonight\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19: Air India flies Canadian citizens home; to bring back stranded Indians tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first Air India aircraft carrying Canadians of Indian origin back to the country landed at Vancouver International Airport on Tuesday afternoon. The flight will return to New Delhi on Wednesday night as the first-ever rescue mission for Indians stranded in Canada due to the Covid-19 pandemic begins.<\/p>\n<p>Describing the flight\u2019s arrival as a \u201chistoric first\u201d, India\u2019s Consulate in Vancouver in British Columbia said the repatriation flight will commence on May 20.<\/p>\n<p>India\u2019s High Commissioner to Ottawa Ajay Bisaria tweeted that he was \u201cdelighted\u201d to welcome the first Vande Bharat Mission flight to Canada. He added that the flight was full as it also brought Indo-Canadians home. \u201cHope to bring every citizen home in these and future flights,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first Air India aircraft carrying Canadians of Indian origin back to the country landed at Vancouver International Airport on Tuesday afternoon. The flight will return to New Delhi on Wednesday night as the first-ever rescue mission for Indians stranded in Canada due to the Covid-19 pandemic begins. Describing the flight\u2019s arrival as a \u201chistoric first\u201d, India\u2019s Consulate in Vancouver in British Columbia said the repatriation flight will commence on May 20. India\u2019s High Commissioner to Ottawa Ajay Bisaria tweeted that he was \u201cdelighted\u201d to welcome the first Vande Bharat Mission flight to Canada. He added that the flight was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[184,141,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-352262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-hindustantimes","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352262","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}