Chandigarh: Auckland flight arrives with 116 passengers

MOHALI: An Air India flight from Auckland in New Zealand landed at the Chandigarh international airport with 116 passengers on board on Wednesday night under the Vande Bharat mission of the central government to rescue stranded Indians abroad.
The flight landed at 9.40 pm, said a spokesperson of the Chandigarh International Airport Limited. He said the flight from Lagos, Nigeria, was cancelled due to operational reasons.
The Auckland flight departed at 9.30 am and reached Delhi at 7 pm. After a halt of more than an hour, it departed for the city at 8.40 pm.
Civil surgeon Dr Manjit Singh said all the passengers will have to undergo strict institutional quarantine at their respective districts.
A total of four flights — one each from the US and Ukraine, and two from Dubai — under the Vande Bharat mission have arrived at Chandigarh.
A special flight of IndiGo from Dubai landed at the Chandigarh international airport on June 15. Out of 177 passengers, 168 passengers were from Punjab, two each from Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir and Chandigarh and one passenger from Uttarakhand.