Mangaluru (Karnataka): Under the Vande Bharat Mission, Air India's special flight from Dubai landed at Karnataka's Mangalore International Airport on Tuesday with 176 passengers. While another Air India Express flight, which had made a stoppage in Bengaluru, arrived at Kerala's Cochin International Airport with 135 passengers and three infants from Singapore.
These two evacuation operations are part of the country's largest-ever initiative under the Vande Bharat Mission to repatriate nationals back to India amid the coronavirus-induced lockdown.
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On Tuesday, Ministry of Civil Aviation had said that a total of 6,037 Indians have been flown back to India in 31 inbound flights operated by Air India and Air India Express under Vande Bharat Mission in 5 days beginning from May 7.