Bengaluru, May 20: An Air India flight from Dammam in Saudi Arabia landed here with 161 passengers, including 85 for Karnataka and 76 to Hyderabad, an official said on Wednesday. Among Karnataka passengers there were both Bengalureans and Mangalureans.
"AIC-1910 (Airbus A321-211) landed at the city airport at 8.45 p.m. and 85 passengers, including 9 women and one infant alighted here, while 76 will fly to Hyderabad," the airline official said.
The flight was 45 minutes behind schedule to Bengaluru.
The airline staff and the state government officials received the returnees in the arrival terminal and gave them masks to wear and sanitizer to wash hands.
All the passengers would be screened with thermal device to read their body temperature though only asymptomatic were flown back.
After completing formalities, including immigration check and filling the self-declaration form, the returnees were taken in state-run buses in batches for 14-day institutional quarantine in hotels and resorts across the city.
Passengers have to download the mandatory Quarantine app on their mobile phone before leaving the airport for contact tracing later.
Another evacuation flight from Kuala Lampur in Malaysia to Bengaluru has been cancelled due to Amphan cyclone over the Bay of Bengal that hit the Odisha and West Bengal on the east coast.
The service was the fourth to the southern state in the second phase of Vande Bharat Mission, the national carrier and its Express arm are operating to repatriate thousands of Indians, including distressed workers, migrants, students, senior citizens and tourists, stranded overseas since the government suspended international flights on March 23 and enforced an extended lockdown on March 25 to combat Covid-19 spread.
The first flight in the second phase landed on Monday night at Mangaluru on the state's west coast, with 177 passengers from Dubai in the UAE.
The second flight to the southern state from Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia landed here (Bengaluru) on Tuesday evening, with 94 passengers.
The third flight from Muscat in Oman landed here at 6.31 p.m. on Wednesday evening and at Mangaluru on the state's west coast at 8.01 p.m.
The remaining flights to Karnataka will land in Bengaluru and Mangaluru over the next 13 days till June 3 from 12 more destinations the world over.
In the first phase of the mission from May 7-17, the airline and its arm flew 6 flights to the state from May 11-15, bringing in 800 passengers, including 623 to Bengaluru and 177 to Mangaluru from London, Singapore, San Francisco and Dubai.
Ali Khan aka Don, who contested the 2013 Assembly elections from Bidar South, had made a video denouncing Saeed for his remarks on the Uri terror attack and the “surgical strikes” carried out by the Indian Army. Ali posted the video on WhatsApp and it went viral.
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Pakistanis have crossed the limits .India must nuke them...may be they might fire few nukes ...but India even after losing some population will be there ...Pakistan is a curse for entire world ...I sincerely request our powerful pm to conduct massive attack in Pakistani soil..our Modiji really on right track be it in black money ..70,000 crores in just 4 months its something amazing and he came to states help during kaveri crisis .my vote and my family vote next time for BJP.please give chance to real Muslim leaders like mr Abdul azim in the new govt .we are sick of chaprasi congress leaders.
Jeevan, Dubai is not in India....you need to go back to school....
in my opinion he should return back to india, they are more powerful in saudi. if they have guts come to india and threaten them only one shot will bhoom them to hell.
Ali khan is a real indian, this big hole pakistanis cant do anything to him or his son,
hijda pakistanis always play hide and seek, come infront and talk bas***ds.
No need to worry aamir.. pakistanis always toss.. they only know to bark they wont bite.
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