Vande Bharat Mission: Second flight from US lands at Hyderabad airport with 121 on board

HYDERABAD: The second repatriation flight to Hyderabad from the US, landed at the city’s Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGIA), in the wee hours of Saturday with 121 passengers on board. The Air India flight, AI 1839, from Newark to Hyderabad via New Delhi reached RGIA at 3.14am. It is the eighth flight to Hyderabad under the Vande Bharat Mission.
Earlier, on May 14, the first flight from the US ferried 163 stranded Indians to their home in Hyderabad. While the Air India aircraft, AI 104, from Washington to RGIA, also via Delhi, took off from the US with 244 passengers, 81 disembarked in Delhi. Another flight, AI 1840, on May 12 ferried 87 passengers from the city to Delhi, from where they were airlifted to the US.
“All arriving passengers and aircraft crew are being screened by thermal cameras positioned at the aerobridge. As per the government’s norm the passengers are being sent for a mandatory 14 day quarantine at designated locations in the city,” a RGIA source said. About seven-eight hotels, including five star facilities, have been roped in for use as quarantine centres.
Till May 16, Hyderabad Airport has handled eight Vande Bharat evacuation flights receiving over 1,200 Indian nationals stranded in various countries like the US, the UK, UAE, Philippines, Malaysia among others.