New Delhi: “We must fly our colleagues back home for salvation.” This decision by Air India on Sunday sees Delhi-Kabul flights floating more than an hour in Afghanistan’s dangerous airspace until the runway at the airport destination is finally available for it landing.
A Boeing 777 emirate from Dubai also holds 28,000.
Feet near Kabul around the same time and return to the UAE without landing in Kabul.
While AI was told the plane was disabled on the runway caused the delay permit ATC, US forces reported at that time secured Kabul airport to maintain safe for evacuation flights for several days.
AI 243 finally landed in Kabul after 2 hours and 13 minutes at 1.33 a.m.
(local time kabul) with 40 passengers on the boat.
Free flights only need less than an hour.
162-seat A320, which was fully booked on a flight back to Delhi, returned to Delhi on Sunday night with 129 passengers who could reach the airport of the surrounded Afghan capital.
Passengers in Kabul find it difficult to achieve A Irport because the road barrier is regulated by the Taliban.
The source at AI, which is the only Indian commercial carrier scheduled to fly to Afghanistan with the Delhi-Kabul-Delhi sector, said: “We plan to operate flights to Kabul on Monday at 8:50 a.m., depending on the basic situation.
At There.
The plane will bring as many people to Delhi.
We have 2-3 employees based in Kabul and will evacuate them Monday.
The rest of the work is done by outsourcing agents locally.
“Through AI, the government tried to evacuate Indians from Afghanistan using the aircraft fleet Fly narrow and wide – which includes several flights sent but cannot land because of security situations.
After Monday and when AI operates flights to Afghanistan, it will fly a small team of commercial and security staff from India – as has been done on other evacuation flights in the past – for passenger buildup in Kabul’s trip back.
Meanwhile, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has “suggested” Indian operators to “continue to monitor the situation in Afghanistan while planning flights” and keeping the plane crew aware of the same thing.
Afghanistan is located on a lane that is too much of almost all flights between North and Western India, including the UAE.
DGCA has also requested airline to “Relook on their enroute alternative, if there is a diversion while confusing the Afghan airspace.” The Indian commercial pilot association, Pilot AI Association, last Tuesday volunteered to fly to Afghanistan to evacuate Indians stranded there.
“(We) are ready to go beyond the duty call to evacuate (others) Indians ..
Extend support and complete cooperation to flee (India) from Afghanistan,” ICPA has written to the flight minister Jyotiraditya SCINDIA last Tuesday.
“There is a real danger in operating to Kabul on Sundays under the current state.
But AI has flown to the war zone and dangerous places in the past also to evacuate Indians.
The Sunday flight was special, because it was our way To say Jai Hind on independence day – by risking our lives for his compatriot, “said a senior pilot.