New Delhi: Close to one lakh foreign nationals have flown out of India over the last two and a half months.
As many as 388 special flights have taken an average of 250 passengers per flight from various cities in India since March 6, said a civil aviation ministry official.
Among the airlines that have operated several such flights are Lufthansa Group carriers, Singapore Airlines, Qatar Airways, Singapore Airlines, British Airways, KLM, Air Canada, Japan Airlines, Ukraine Air, Aeroflot and United.
Operating these flights was not easy as foreigners were stranded all over India. Several Russians, for instance, were stuck from Manali to Rishikesh to Goa when Russia decided to fly them out. First, these countries took India’s assistance in bringing them to the city from where charter flights would take them back home. Some Indian carriers operated charters to fly foreign citizens from one Indian city to another from where they would catch flights to their country.
Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport authorities said they had facilitated repatriation of over 8,950 passengers with 53 evacuation flights from March 25 to May 14 to destinations such as Tehran, Zurich, Bali, Addis Ababa, Paro, London, Atlanta, Amsterdam, Singapore, Paris, Frankfurt, Kenya, Mauritius, Muscat, and Tokyo.
Of the total repatriation flights facilitated by CSMIA, Atlanta saw over 2,000 passengers evacuated with a total of eight flights operated by Delta Air Lines, highest to any destination from Mumbai during this lockdown period.
While a number of flights were arranged from Ahmedabad by the British high commission to facilitate travel of its citizens stranded in Gujarat — with flights being operated by British Airways evacuating roughly 1,500 people — 13 relief flights have been operated from Ahmedabad over the past month and a half, including two by Air India to Mumbai and linking flights to New York, operated by Delta.
Nearly 1,000 foreign nationals have been repatriated from Kolkata by Atlantis Armenian Airlines, British Airways, Swiss Air, Sri Lankan Airlines, Biman Bangladesh and Druk Air.
Kerala has seen a number of flights operating — Oman Air airlifting 53 Omanis from Kochi to Muscat, British Airways airlifting 170 UK nationals, Air Arabia airlifting 18 UAE nationals to Sharjah and Swiss Airways flight evacuating 164 Swiss nationals to Zurich. From Thiruvanthapuram, 110 British nationals were evacuated to London while 206 Kuwaitis were evacuated on a Kuwait Airways flight and two Maldivian Airlines flights airlifting 160 to Male.
Since the lockdown, three special flights have flown out of Hyderabad, including a British Airways flight to Bahrain with 135 passengers, an Air Arabia flight to Sharjah with 72 passengers and an IndiGo flight with Kenyan nationals to Mumbai who were then airlifted by Kenyan Airlines.
15/05/20 Times of India
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As many as 388 special flights have taken an average of 250 passengers per flight from various cities in India since March 6, said a civil aviation ministry official.
Among the airlines that have operated several such flights are Lufthansa Group carriers, Singapore Airlines, Qatar Airways, Singapore Airlines, British Airways, KLM, Air Canada, Japan Airlines, Ukraine Air, Aeroflot and United.
Operating these flights was not easy as foreigners were stranded all over India. Several Russians, for instance, were stuck from Manali to Rishikesh to Goa when Russia decided to fly them out. First, these countries took India’s assistance in bringing them to the city from where charter flights would take them back home. Some Indian carriers operated charters to fly foreign citizens from one Indian city to another from where they would catch flights to their country.
Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport authorities said they had facilitated repatriation of over 8,950 passengers with 53 evacuation flights from March 25 to May 14 to destinations such as Tehran, Zurich, Bali, Addis Ababa, Paro, London, Atlanta, Amsterdam, Singapore, Paris, Frankfurt, Kenya, Mauritius, Muscat, and Tokyo.
Of the total repatriation flights facilitated by CSMIA, Atlanta saw over 2,000 passengers evacuated with a total of eight flights operated by Delta Air Lines, highest to any destination from Mumbai during this lockdown period.
While a number of flights were arranged from Ahmedabad by the British high commission to facilitate travel of its citizens stranded in Gujarat — with flights being operated by British Airways evacuating roughly 1,500 people — 13 relief flights have been operated from Ahmedabad over the past month and a half, including two by Air India to Mumbai and linking flights to New York, operated by Delta.
Nearly 1,000 foreign nationals have been repatriated from Kolkata by Atlantis Armenian Airlines, British Airways, Swiss Air, Sri Lankan Airlines, Biman Bangladesh and Druk Air.
Kerala has seen a number of flights operating — Oman Air airlifting 53 Omanis from Kochi to Muscat, British Airways airlifting 170 UK nationals, Air Arabia airlifting 18 UAE nationals to Sharjah and Swiss Airways flight evacuating 164 Swiss nationals to Zurich. From Thiruvanthapuram, 110 British nationals were evacuated to London while 206 Kuwaitis were evacuated on a Kuwait Airways flight and two Maldivian Airlines flights airlifting 160 to Male.
Since the lockdown, three special flights have flown out of Hyderabad, including a British Airways flight to Bahrain with 135 passengers, an Air Arabia flight to Sharjah with 72 passengers and an IndiGo flight with Kenyan nationals to Mumbai who were then airlifted by Kenyan Airlines.
15/05/20 Times of India
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