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The flight was part of the Vande Bharat mission which started on Thursday to bring back stranded Indian nationals home amid the novel coronavirus-induced lockdown.

The government also said that Air India will operate 64 flights from May 7 to May 13 to bring back around 15,000 Indian nationals stranded abroad due to the coronavirus-induced lockdown.

The flight, the third to Kerala, touched down at around 8 pm and was part of the Vande Bharat Mission which started on Thursday to bring home Indian nationals stranded due to COVID-19 lockdown in various countries.

The stranded people hail from Tamil Nadu and they were working in the United Arab Emirates.

The rescue flight that took off from Trichy airport to Kuala Lumpur was commanded by Captain Kavitha Rajkumar, while Captain Bindhu Sebastian was the commander for Kochi-Muscat-Kochi flight.

For flights between India and Singapore, the charge is Rs 18,000-20,000 per passenger, and it is Rs 50,000 per person for India-UK flights.

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) said that once these flights are completed, over 16,500 travellers will have been brought back from India on 64 special flights.

An Air India flight carrying 129 Indian nationals from Dhaka, Bangladesh, landed at Delhi airport today as part of Vande Bharat Mission to bring back stranded Indians from different countries.

Washington, May 05: Special evacuation flights for Indians stranded in the US due to the global travel restrictions put in place to contain the coronavirus pandemic are most likely to begin from San Francisco this week, according to officials.

Union Minister of Civil Aviation Hardeep Singh Puri was interviewed by some media channels this week wherein he spoke of the preparedness from the ministry's side on restarting operations for passengers, however, there will be changes to the way people travel

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Union Minister of Civil Aviation Hardeep Singh Puri was interviewed by some media channels this week wherein he spoke of the preparedness from the ministry's side on restarting operations for passengers, however, there will be changes to the way people travel

New Delhi, May 09: Several Indians, who are stranded in at least seven countries due to coronavirus outbreak, is all set to fly back to their home country on Saturday in special flights under Vande Bharat Mission. According to

भारतीय एयरलाइन वाहक एयर इंडिया ने विदेश में फंसे भारतीय नागरिकों को वापस लाने के लिए फ्लाइट की बुकिंग शुरू कर दी है। एयर इंडिया ने गुरुवार को घोषणा की है कि लंदन, अमेरिका और यूएई सहित कई देशों में फंसे

Around 250 Indian students and tourists were seen queuing with their luggage at the airport from early on Saturday as they prepared for the journey home.

Air travelers cannot receive cash compensation if their flight is delayed by a passenger biting others and assaulting crew members, an adviser at the Court of Justice of the European Union said on Thursday.

Vistara has made temporary changes in its in-flight products and services to minimise the touchpoints of human contact on board by up to 80% during the post-lockdown period.

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Eight from Karnataka, two from Tamil Nadu, rest from Kerala; 84 pregnant women among passengers

They will be cleared in batches of 30

According to senior member Rajiv Mehra, no international flights are operating till May 1, so international ticket booking would not have happened during the first phase of the lockdown. "When there is no booking, the question of refund does not arise. As regards the domestic sector, everything is in lockdown, so virtually no bookings have taken place, so no refund would be required," he said.

Two hundred Kolkata-bound passengers faced a harrowing time as a technical fault in Air India's Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft delayed their flight from IGI airport by over six hours.

Washington State's Department of Transportation flew a drone through Seattle's SR-99 tunnel created by the Big Bertha boring machine.

In the first episode of the new series Flight Mode, WIRED takes you into a wildly complex mission control where Delta monitors thousands of flights 24/7.

Before takeoff, jet engines must prove they're safe, reliable, and capable. In episode two of WIRED's Flight Mode we step into the massive bunkers where engineers test and maintain these mighty beasts, all to keep you up in the air.

Lost luggage is down by 65% thanks to some new tech. Follow the roller coaster ride that your bags make into the bowels of the airport.

Pilots spend hours in multi-million dollar simulators, preparing for the worst cast scenario. In this episode Flight Mode, WIRED's Jack Stewart gets a taste of what pilots go through.

Facebook’s huge internet-beaming drone finally takes it's first flight and it's all part of the tech giant's plans to provide internet access in remote parts of the world.

To avoid severe weather pilots used to carry 40 pound briefcases with piles of paperwork and information for their flight. Not anymore.

It's bound to happen to you— your flight is cancelled, delayed or the airline bumps you. That's why it's important to know your rights when your travel plans go astray.

Suit up with a NASA high altitude ER-2 pilot as he prepares for a scientific research mission flying as high as 70,000 feet in the agency's modified U-2 spy plane.

To get the best space observations possible, NASA scientists fly around the world in a highly modified 747 carrying a giant telescope.

Walk into NASA Armstrong's Sub-scale Research Lab and see the future of flight in miniature. The lab's model airplanes are used to test cutting edge aeronautical ideas like crash-avoidance and more efficient rocket launches.

It takes a lot of training to become an elite NASA research pilot. WIRED's Jack Stewart gets a crash course in flying and rolling F-18 jets for science, of course.

NASA takes retired Global Hawk military drones and sets them up to fly dangerous missions monitoring some of the most extreme storms for better weather data.

For seven decades experimental X-planes have been developed and flown in the Mojave desert. NASA is now building the future of flight like an all electric plane and a quieter supersonic jet.

The F-35 is the most expensive weapons system, ever. After years of delays, the fighter jet just made its first public flight at the Paris Air Show.

In the not so distant future we might all take supersonic flights from New York to Los Angeles. It all started seventy years ago high above the Mojave desert.

Dot Physics' Rhett Allain explains the science behind how drones fly.

The personal air transport vehicle has achieved the milestone of "first flight", as the race to develop flying cars continues.

Welcome to the Aerodrome, where engineers are simulating wind conditions to teach drones to fly safely.

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Six flights flew in from five countries on Friday. Passengers returned from Singapore, Dhaka, Bahrain, Riyadh and Dubai to Delhi, Srinagar, Kochi, Kozhikode and Chennai

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