Vande Bharat mission: Rajasthan Govt makes arrangements to land flights at 4 more places

Vande Bharat flights carrying passengers from abroad will soon land at four places in Rajasthan, officials said on Thursday. Presently, repatriation flights land only in Jaipur city.

Additional Chief Secretary Dr Subodh Agarwal said state government is making arrangements to expand flight landing at airports in Udaipur, Jodhpur, Jaisalmer and Bikaner districts. District Commissioners have been directed to arrange quarantine facilities near airports, he said.

Meanwhile, 353 people, including 170 from Ras Al Khaimah and 183 from Dubai arrived at  Jaipur airport on Thursday.

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Air India to operate 170 flights between June 3 to 17

Air India will be conducting 170 flights to and from 17 countries between July 3 and 15 under fourth phase of Vande Bharat Mission, according to an official document.

government started mission on May 6 to help stranded people reach ir destinations using special repatriation flights. Scheduled international passenger flights have been suspended in India since March 23 due to coronavirus pandemic.

Under fourth phase of mission, Air India will be conducting 170 flights connecting India with Canada, US, UK, Kenya, Sri Lanka, Philippines, Kyrgyzstan, Saudi Arabia, Bangladesh, Thailand, South Africa, Russia, Australia, Myanmar, Japan, Ukraine and Vietnam, as per airline's document accessed by PTI.

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se 170 chartered flights under fourth phase are scheduled to be operated between July 3 and 15, it stated. A total of 38 flights and 32 flights will be operated on Indo-UK and Indo-US routes, respectively, as per document. national carrier will operate 26 flights between India and Saudi Arabia, it added.

Air India is scheduled to operate 495 chartered flights to and from various countries in third phase, which began on June 10 and it will end on July 4. first phase was from May 7 to 16, following which second phase began.

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(With PTI inputs)

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