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MUMBAI: In the past two weeks, charter aircraft fitted with patient isolation pods and oxygen concentrators to fly Covid patients have been in such demand that if you book one today, your patient gets to board only after two to three days, said industry sources. “For 15 days, we reduced production at our stainless steel plant in Pithampur to provide 1,200-1,500 oxygen cylinders daily free. Yet, we could not get an air ambulance without a wait of about three days,’’ said Brijesh Agrawal, ...

Among those chartering flights post-lockdown are families going to Shirdi as a loved one survived Covid, upper middle-class families from cities flying to Maldives as the economics worked. MUMBAI: While the pandemic debilitated airlines, for the aircraft charter industry, the year 2020 brought along an assorted mix of first-time charter flight flyers. These were passengers who had never flow in a charter flight, people who didn’t know that unlike airline jets, you need to duck to get into mos...