Chennai: The first of a series of flights under phase-3 evacuation of stranded Indians by Air India landed in Chennai with 181 passengers from Kuala Lumpur on Friday.
\nSix flights to be operated by Air India on different days till the end of June will bring in a total of around 1,000 people from Malaysia, Singapore, Manila, Bangkok and Ho Chi Minh City to Chennai under the flights scheduled under the Vande Bharat Mission. A couple of flights are also scheduled from the Middle East.
\nPassengers travelling to Chennai from the US, the UK and Europe, however, are inconvenienced as they have to board a connecting flight at Delhi.
\nThe state health authorities and the Airports Authority of India (AAI) are preparing to receive the passengers, who will have to undergo Covid-19 checks at the airport upon arrival and be moved to a government facility or hotel for quarantine.
\nAir India Express operated around 12 flights in the phase 1 of the mission early last month from Kuala Lumpur, Kuwait, Singapore, Muscat, Manila, London (via Mumbai) and Dhaka but there were no flights to Chennai under phase 2. More flights have been scheduled to Chennai, Trichy and Madurai under phase 3 because of requests from people stranded abroad, said an airport official. \u201cThe demand is now to operate direct flights from the US.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Chennai: The first of a series of flights under phase-3 evacuation of stranded Indians by Air India landed in Chennai with 181 passengers from Kuala Lumpur on Friday. Six flights to be operated by Air India on different days till the end of June will bring in a total of around 1,000 people from Malaysia, Singapore, Manila, Bangkok and Ho Chi Minh City to Chennai under the flights scheduled under the Vande Bharat Mission. A couple of flights are also scheduled from the Middle East. Passengers travelling to Chennai from the US, the UK and Europe, however, are inconvenienced as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,130,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-357188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357188","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}