Each country is allowed a maximum of 15 flights per week.
Flights to and from the United Kingdom will resume from January 8 with each country allowed a maximum of 15 flights per week to begin with, according to Minister of State for Civil Aviation Hardeep Puri on Friday.
India banned flights from the U.K. on January 21 for a period of 10 days after a new strain of coronavirus was discovered there. The ban was extended by a week after some passengers arriving from the U.K. were found to carry the new strain.
“It has been decided that flights between India & UK will resume from 8 Jan 2021. Operations till 23 Jan will be restricted to 15 flights per week each for carriers of the two countries to & from Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru & Hyderabad only,” Mr. Puri tweeted.
93% of total 6,500 flights under Vande Bharat was Air India’s
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An Air India flight lands at Chandigarh International airport in carrying 63 Indian residents from New York under Vande Bharat Mission. File
| Photo Credit: AKHILESH KUMAR
The Air India Group operated 93% of the total 6,500 flights under Vande Bharat and ferried more than 10 lakh passengers, according to government data.
The total passengers accounted for nearly 25% of the total stranded Indians brought back through various modes of transport, Minister of State for Civil Aviation Hardeep Puri said.
However, to a specific question on how much loss did Air India incur or profit it earned from these operations remained unanswered.