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Dubai: On April 22, UAE’s National Emergency Crisis and Disaster Management Authority (NCEMA) and the General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) announced that inbound flights from India to the UAE would be suspended for a period of 10 days. What is the flight suspension and which flights are still operational? Here is all you need to know.
Which flights have been suspended?
According to the announcement by NCEMA and GCAA, all incoming flights from India to the UAE, on national and foreign carriers, have been suspended.
Flights carrying transit passengers will also be barred from coming to the UAE, with the exception of transit flights coming to the UAE and heading onward to India.
India-UAE travel suspension: Authorities clarify who are exempted dhanusha@khaleejtimes.com Filed on April 25, 2021
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How chartered flights will operate, GCAA clarifies.
Operation of ‘chartered flights by businessmen’, an exempted category on the India–UAE travel sector, are subject to strict approvals from civil aviation authorities and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA), officials told
Khaleej Times.
The General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) confirmed that UAE citizens, diplomats, official delegations, golden residency visa holders and flights of businessmen are exempt from the entry restrictions on inbound passengers onboard India-UAE flights from April 25.
Providing clarification on the subject of ‘flights of businessmen’ a GCAA official told
Dubai: When Celin Jacob, an assistant chief nursing officer in Dubai, flew home to India with her four-year-old daughter Cheryl on April 10, she was all set to enjoy a week-long break with her father and her husband in Kerala.
However, in an unexpected turn of events, not only has Celin become COVID-19 positive, two days after reaching home, but she is now not even in a position to fly back to the UAE any time soon owing to the suspension of passenger flights from India that will kick in from 11.59pm on April 24.
Celin is one of the several Indian health-care professionals from the UAE who are currently vacationing back home, whose travel plans have been affected due to the entry restrictions that are subject to review after ten days.