Air India & AI Express operate 14 flights on Day 6 of Vande Bharat Mission amid lockdown

Air India and its subsidiary Air India Express operated a total of 14 flights on Tuesday to bring back Indian citizens under Vande Bharat Mission and for travel of foreigners amid COVID-19-triggered lockdown.

31 inbound, 34 outbound flights in last 5 days

As per data from Air India till 8 pm on Tuesday, New Delhi to San Francisco flight departed at 3:30 am with 227 passengers, Mumbai to London flight left at 6:30 am with 165 passengers, and Cochin to Singapore flight departed at 10:30 am with 29 passengers. flight to New Delhi from Singapore departed at 6:05 am with 243 passengers, from Chicago, flight to Mumbai lifted off at 9:55 am with 334 passengers, flight to Srinagar from Dhaka took off at 10:30 am with 169 passengers while one from Dammam in Saudi Arabia to Cochin took off at 3:15 pm with 168 passengers.

Dubai to Kannur took off at 3:30 pm with 177 passengers, Kuala Lumpur to Mumbai lifted off at 3:45 pm with 255 passengers, Manila to Delhi took off at 4 pm with 237 passengers, while Singapore to Bengaluru flight took off at 4:15 pm with 177 passengers. London flight to Mumbai departed at 5:45 pm with 328 passengers, one from Muscat to Chennai departed at 5:45 pm with 180 passengers, and flight from Dubai to Mangalore took off at 6:40 pm with 177 passengers.

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In last five days, from May 7 to May 11. Air India and AI express have operated 31 inbound flights which carried 6037 passengers and operated 34 outbound flights that carried 1329 foreign nationals. Under Vande Bharat mission anunced by India, Air India group will operate 64 special repatriation flights to bring back around 14,800 Indians from 12 countries from May 7 to May 13.

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India has been under lockdown since March 25 to curb spre of vel coronavirus, which has infected more than 70,000 people and killed around 2,290 people in country till w. All scheduled commercial passenger flights have been suspended for lockdown period.

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(With ANI inputs)