Emirates flights to five Indian cities from July 12

REPATRIATION OF STRANDED INDIANS

Emirates flights to five Indian cities from July 12

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

New Delhi:  12.07.2020

Emirates on Saturday announced it will operate special repatriation flights to five Indian cities from July 12 to July 26, 2020, “to assist stranded Indians get home and for residents of UAE currently in India to return to the UAE.” The flights will be operated to Delhi, Kochi and Thiruvananthapuram. Flights planned to Bengaluru and Mumbai are "subject to state government approval”. While Bengaluru, Delhi and Kochi will have double daily; Mumbai will have thrice daily and Thiruvananthapuram will be once a day.

“Flights can be booked on emirates.com, through travel agents, Emirates’ sales offices and contact centre. Passengers must meet all the entry requirements of the destination to be allowed to board the flights,” Emirates said in a statement. “Only Indian citizens stranded in the UAE will be allowed to fly from Dubai to the five Indian destinations. Flights from India to Dubai will be available for UAE nationals and residents with prior entry approval from the General Directorate of Residency and Foreign Affairs (GDFRA) for residents of Dubai and ICA approval for residents of other emirates of the UAE. All passengers travelling from airports in India to Dubai are also required to carry a negative Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) certificate issued by a laboratory authorised by the government of India to be accepted on the flight. Certificates must be issued no more than 96 hours before departure,” it added.

More information for returning UAE residents can be found at https://www.emirates.com/ae/english/help/flyingto-and-from-dubai/