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Doha: The Air India Express, a leading Indian budget airline, will operate additional flights on Thiruvananthapuram-Doha and Doha-Cochin sectors during the period between June 25 and July 8.
P. Ashok Gajapathi Raju, India’s minister of civil aviation tweeted:
Air India Express will operate an additional flight on Thiruvananthapuram-Doha and Doha-Cochin sectors from 25th June to 8th July 2017.
— Ashok Gajapathi Raju (@Ashok_Gajapathi) June 21, 2017
Earlier, Jet Airways, has announced two additional flights to Mumbai, India on June 22 and 23 in response to the current scenarion in the region.
This will operate along with the existing daily flight from Doha to Mumbai.
The UAE, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain had closed their skies to Qatar Airways flights and their national airlines also stopped flying to Qatar.
Many Indian expatriates depend on connection flights through other Gulf States for their journey during summer, Eid holiday as direct airlines are often expensive during the seasons. But after the siege the options left to expat Indians are direct flights of Qatar Airways, Jet Airways, Air India Express, Indigo and connection services of Oman Air.
Meanwhile, panicky headlines appeared on some Indian news websites, and some twitter handles who shared them have come under severe criticism from Twitter itself.
A sample:
Just 4 EID rush & Summer Holidays after that load will coming down.But the way media said airlift, bringing Indians back was very incorrect https://t.co/PJ1rbTZ9HK
— Captain Tsubasa (@cpt_t88) June 21, 2017
