NEW DELHI: Air India isn’t only bringing back Indians stranded abroad under the Vande Bharat mission, it’s now opened bookings to fly people out of India to the US, UK and Singapore on the special flights it will operate in the first week of the massive repatriation exercise.
While AI in the first phase is operating 64 flights to 12 countries, including six in the Gulf, to fly back Indians from there, the airline can take bookings only for those destinations that are allowing people to come in. The Gulf countries, Singapore, Malaysia and Bangladesh are among those who are not letting in non-citizens.
With lakhs of Indians stranded abroad and scores here desperate to get back to their homes or work in foreign countries, the aviation ministry website crashed for some hours on Wednesday due to the volumes of hits it is getting from people