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Ajay Awtaney is the Founder and Editor of Live From A Lounge (LFAL), a pioneering digital platform renowned for publishing news and views about aviation, hotels, passenger experience, loyalty programs, travel trends and frequent travel tips for the Global Indian. He is considered the Indian authority on business travel, luxury travel, frequent flyer miles, loyalty credit cards and travel for Indians around the globe. Ajay is a frequent contributor and commentator on the media as well, including ET Now, BBC, CNBC TV18, NDTV, Conde Nast Traveller and many other outlets.

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Repatriation Flights from India to Italy / Ireland / Canada / USA / UK / Australia / France / Germany / Singapore under Vande Bharat Phase 2 (May 17 – June 2)

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Air India has released plans of Phase 2 for their repatriation flights from India to the other countries. Here are all the flights up for sale in case you want to fly to another country from India at the moment.

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Finalised Phase 2 Vande Bharat: Flights to Finland, South Korea, Belgium, New Zealand, Netherlands, Kenya, Mauritius, Spain, Myanmar, Maldives added

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Air India has already started the repatriation mission Phase 2, but they have added loads of new flights overnight to cover new airports and many interesting countries such as New Zealand and Belgium where it has not operated scheduled commercial flights.

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Act Fast: Status Match to Qatar Airways’ Privilege Club for 12 months

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A new Qatar Airways Status Match opportunity is available through May 20, 2020. The provisions are a straight-up status match for 12 months, and an opportunity to re-qualify for status at half the usual number of points required.

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Details of Repatriation Flights to India from UK (updated May 15)

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Repatriation flights to India from the UK will start on May 7, 2020. Here are the details of the flights between May 7-14 which will be operating to Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai and Ahmedabad from London Heathrow in the week starting May 7, 2020.

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Details of Repatriation Flights to India from USA (updated May 15)

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Air India will operate flights from various American airports, such as San Francisco, New York JFK and Washington DC to Delhi from May 19, 2020, onwards in Phase 2 of the Vande Bharat Mission. Here is how to get in on one of these flights.

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Qatar Airways’ new reschedule policy is crazy generous

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Qatar Airways new travel booking policy sets a new benchmark in terms of flexibility being offered to customers for international travel. Not just is it making you an offer to book travel now, you can also change destinations later if your trip does not take off as intended.

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