SME Times News Bureau | 02 Apr, 2020
Flag carrier Air India has entered into commercial charter flight agreements with four countries to repatriate their citizens.
According
to Air India CMD Rajiv Bansal, the airline has entered into agreements
with France, Canada, Germany and Ireland to ferry their citizens back
home. The airline will operate 18 flights under these agreements.
"We
were approached by these countries' embassies for charter flights to
repatriate their citizens back home. These agreements are on commercial
basis," Bansal said in an online press conference of the Ministry of
Civil Aviation.
Bansal added that after ferrying the passengers, the aircraft will return without any passengers on-board.