HYDERABAD: About 118 Indian nationals stranded in the US due to the covid-19 led lockdown landed at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGIA) in Hyderabad on Monday.
This was the second flight carrying Indians who landed at the GMR Group-operated RGIA, which is part of the off-shore repatriation drive under the government's Vande Bharat mission.
The Indian nationals reached Hyderabad via Mumbai in an Air India flight, AI 1617, which departed from San Francisco, USA. The flight landed at the RGIA at 9.22 am today.
Another flight with Indian citizens from Abu Dhabi (UAE) is also expected to land in Hyderabad at around 9.30 pm. To facilitate the arriving passengers and aircraft crew, the RGIA officials have sanitised and fumigated the