And now, charter flights for repatriation

from Oz,

Following the successful Vande Bharat repatriation flights, charter flights have now been introduced to help take stranded Indians back home. In an initiative of well-known Melbourne-based travel professionals Gaura Travel and award-winning airline Singapore Airlines, flights to Delhi and Bombay are due to take off in late July.

Ashwini Sonthalia of Gaura Travel told Indian Link, “It all started with the announcement by Hardeep Singh Puri, India’s Civil Aviation Minister, that India will now allow private airlines to operate repatriation flights. After this announcement, we got in touch with Singapore Airlines and worked on a contract with them to operate the flights. Concurrently, we also contacted the High Commission of India in Canberra to seek their permission. Encouraged by the