All 240 on AI flight to Rome isolated

NEW DELHI: All the 240 people on board Air India’s Delhi-Amritsar-Rome flight (AI 1123) last Wednesday have been quarantined there after 23 passengers and two crew members — the captain who operated the aircraft and a cabin crew member — tested Covid positive on arrival. Italian authorities put the 230 passengers, eight cabin crew and two pilots in paid quarantine in a hotel for 10 days.
Sources say Indian officials have been trying in vain to provide food to them and also get clearance to fly the other pilot and seven cabin crew members who are not positive back home.
AI eventually had to fly two Boeing 787 Dreamliner pilots and a cabin crew member from Delhi to Frankfurt, and from there to Rome. They flew the B787, back to Delhi on Sunday with no passengers on board.
A person who flew to Rome on the flight said: “Everyone was sent to a hotel in ambulances for quarantinee. The rooms and toilets are not very clean,” the person said.