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Meet the real-life Viktor Navorski, a German national who has been living in the transit area of Delhi Airport’s Terminal 3 for over 50 days now, as he got stuck while transiting the Delhi Airport on his way to Istanbul.
In the second phase of the repatriation flights to India, the Government is planning a much bigger scale, almost double than phase 1, and many more airports where Indian carriers don’t even operate for the moment.
Avianca, the Latin American Star Alliance member airline filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. This means the airline will operate but will restructure its balance sheet. However, this does not seem to have any impact on the airline’s loyalty programme, LifeMiles, at the moment.
People are annoyed that they are not able to make it to the charter flights being organised to repatriate Indian citizens. Here, I try and explain why repatriation flights are being operated only from a few airports as of now.
The Government of India expects to have some people fly out on the empty legs of repatriation flights out of India as well to get them back to their home countries. Here is how to go about getting on these repatriation flights.
Repatriation flights to India from the UAE will start on May 7, 2020. Here are the details of the first flights which will be operating to Kochi and Kozhikode from UAE on May 7, 2020.
Repatriation Flights to India from Oman will be launched on May 9, 2020, and flights will operate to Kochi and Chennai in the first week of repatriation flights.
Here is the price list of all the Air India flights which will be operated for repatriating Indian citizens from other countries over the next week.
The Government of India has initiated a plan to bring back home thousands of Indians back home on special evacuation flights. In the first phase, these flights will be operated by Air India using their fleets of 787s, 777s and A320/A321 aircraft. Here are all the details!
The Government of India has finally figured they will operate flights from May 7, 2020, onwards to repatriate Indian citizens who might be stuck in various other countries. The size of this repatriation could be anywhere between 200K to 700K citizens by varied estimates.
Air India has started pushing out a new schedule for flights in the coming days. Take note, however, that these flights are not yet open for sale. However, this shows that Air India has perhaps started to plan for a post lockdown opening of flights.
