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The Air India Express flight that was scheduled to fly with 181 Indian nationals stranded in Doha has been suspended for now, an airport official said Sunday.
Sources told News18 that the flight was denied permission to land due to some technical reasons. He was to travel to Doha from Kozhikode around 1 pm and land at Thiruvananthapuram around 10.45 pm.
“There have been some technical issues, as Doha has not given permission for this flight to land. What we are implied is that this flight was suspended. It will now have to operate under a new schedule. We were fully ready to receive the further flight. late at night, “said the official, who did not want to be identified.
The Thiruvananthapuram district fundraiser told the media that the flight has been rescheduled for Tuesday. Some 50 passengers booked to travel from Doha had reportedly already arrived at the airport there.
Kerala, therefore, will see only one flight on Sunday, and that is the one that will bring stranded Indians from Malaysia to Kochi at night.
Sunday is the fourth day of a gigantic government operation to bring back Indians trapped abroad due to airspace closures due to Covid-19. The exercise involves sending commercial passenger aircraft and warships from the Indian Navy to more than a dozen countries.
Earlier in the day, 572 people landed at Mumbai airport on two flights: one from the UK with 329 people and the other from Singapore with 243 people. The first repatriation flight from the United States took off from San Francisco International Airport on Sunday, with around 200 people on board.
In the first phase, from May 7 to 13, 14,800 Indians will be repatriated from 13 countries. All returnees will be screened prior to shipment and only those without signs of COVID-19 infection will be able to return, the government said, adding that all who will be screened upon arrival will also be sent to a mandatory quarantine period of 14 days.
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