After the Ministry of Home Affairs announced special flights for evacuation of distressed stranded Indian citizens abroad and of those who are normally living abroad but want to return, the Ministry of Civil Aviation has drawn up a flight plan to facilitate the process.
Air India will operate 64 flights from May 7 to May 13 to bring back around 15,000 Indian nationals stranded abroad amid the COVID-19 lockdown, it was announced in New Delhi on Tuesday.
10 of these flights will operate from UAE, two from Qatar, five from Saudi Arabia, seven from UK, five from Singapore, seven from USA, five from Philippines, seven from Bangladesh, two from Bahrain, seven from Malaysia, five from Kuwait and two from Oman, tweeted Civil Aviation Minister