Air India Express said it's vaccinated most eligible employees against Covid-19 to make sure safe travel. Vistara has recently operated a flight between Delhi and Mumbai with a totally vaccinated cabin crew.
Air India Express, the budget wing of the Air India, on Friday operated the country's first flight with the crew fully vaccinated against Covid-19. The flight, IX 191, operated from Delhi to Dubai. because the vaccination drive within the country is gathering pace and activities are resuming, more and more airlines are ensuring their crew are vaccinated. Vistara has recently operated a flight between Delhi and Mumbai with a totally vaccinated cabin crew. But no other flight has operated internationally yet with a totally vaccinated crew.
"Air India Express, India's leading budget carrier, operated the primary flight from the country with fully vaccinated crew on June 18 on Delhi- Dubai sector. The pilots and therefore the cabin crew of IX 191, which took faraway from Delhi at 10:40 am, had received both doses of their Covid-19 vaccine," said a politician release by the airline.
Captain DR Gupta and Captain Alok Kumar Nayak were the pilots of the flight, while the crew included Venkat Kella, Praveen Chandra, Pravin Chougle and Manisha Kamble. an equivalent team operated the return flight also . The airline said that they need vaccinated most eligible crew members and frontline staff.
Normal flight operations came to a halt in March last year after a nationwide lockdown was imposed. Flight movements resumed within the sort of operation because the Centre started Vande Bharat Mission to evacuate Indians stranded in other countries. Air India Express has been a neighborhood of the mission and operated 7,005 flights carrying a complete of 1.63 million passengers till last month.
"As we operate the country's first flight with fully-vaccinated crew, it's going to be recalled that it had been Air India Express that operated India's first-ever Vande Bharat Mission (VBM) flight which touched down Indian soil on May 7 carrying passengers from Abu Dhabi . We are happy that now our teams are shielded with the protection of the vaccines" the airline said.
While the Vande Bharat Mission remains happening , international flights were being operated in bubbles, though some countries suspended flights from India within the wake of the second wave of the pandemic.
