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Coronavirus: Chartered India flights repatriate over 1,500 workers from UAE

Abu Dhabi - 'Nine such charters have taken 1,568 workers home in three days'

Chartered flights have started operations from the UAE as the second phase of Vande Bharat Mission in underway to repatriate stranded Indians stuck abroad. So far more than 1,500 workers have been repatriated since Wednesday.
"Three company labour charters took 564 workers to Ahmedabad, Amritsar and Varanasi. Nine such charters have taken 1,568 workers home in three days," the Indian Embassy said on Friday.
Meanwhile, Etihad Airways flew out stranded passengers on Wednesday. The special service took 122 passengers from Abu Dhabi International Airport to Biju Patnaik International Airport in Bhubaneswar, the capital city of Odisha. This is first reported operation of a non-Air India carrier joining the evacuation from the UAE ever since Vande Bharat Mission commenced on May 7.
Anurag Srivastava, the official spokesperson of the Indian Ministry of External Affairs, on Thursday said that besides Air India, private airlines and chartered flights have started operations to bring back Indians stranded.
The Consulate General of India, Dubai, the cost for chartered flights has to be borne by the organisation or company availing such a service.