New Delhi : India launches the Vande Bharat Mission later today, with Air India flights ferrying out passengers stranded in India. The first repatriation flight of Air India Express IX419 to take off from Kochi (Kerala) for Abu Dhabi today.
On the return journey, these flights will bring back Indians, stuck overseas.
The Mission is claimed to be the biggest repatriation exercise ever.
Air India subsidiary, Air India Express, will also operate flights, mainly to the Middle-East.
The first Air India flight will take off from Delhi at 11.15 pm, on May 7, to Singapore. The next day, on May 8, flights will leave for Dhaka, London, Riyadh and San Francisco. These will be operated from Mumbai and Delhi.
Air India has charted out a 8-day plan. About 1.9 lakh Indians have registered, all over the world, to get back home.