The United Arab Emirates (UAE), home to thousands of expatriate Indians, has asked Air India Ltd not to carry passengers from India on its repatriation flights under the Vande Bharat Mission, unless specifically approved by the UAE government, the national carrier said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs per the guidelines issued by the General Civil Aviation Authority of the United Arab Emirates\u2014Safety Decision 2020-01 (Issue 17) Q&A Guidance For Foreign Operators, Issue Date: 23 June 2020 \u2014transportation of passengers to the UAE on repatriation flights is not allowed,” it added.<\/p>\n
All passengers, including Indian nationals, who hold valid residency permit or work permit, and have approvals from UAE\u2019s Federal Authority for Identity and Citizenship or Dubai\u2019s General Directorate of Residency and Foreigners Affairs to travel to the country, will now need specific approvals from the UAE embassy in New Delhi and the UAE\u2019s ministry of foreign affairs and international cooperation to travel from India to the Gulf nation on the Vande Bharat flights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The United Arab Emirates (UAE), home to thousands of expatriate Indians, has asked Air India Ltd not to carry passengers from India on its repatriation flights under the Vande Bharat Mission, unless specifically approved by the UAE government, the national carrier said on Wednesday. \u201cAs per the guidelines issued by the General Civil Aviation Authority of the United Arab Emirates\u2014Safety Decision 2020-01 (Issue 17) Q&A Guidance For Foreign Operators, Issue Date: 23 June 2020 \u2014transportation of passengers to the UAE on repatriation flights is not allowed,” it added. All passengers, including Indian nationals, who hold valid residency permit or work […]<\/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":[188,139,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-359248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359248","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=359248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}