UK engages Qatar Airways to ferry citizens back

Amritsar, April 28

As many as 271 British citizens of Punjab origin were ferried back to their country on Tuesday, as the British government today engaged Qatar Airways’ flight from Amritsar to Heathrow (London).

Passengers said they came here on a vacation, but got stranded after all flights were grounded following the imposition of the curfew to prevent the spread of Covid. So, they contacted their High Commission online appealing to repatriate them so that they could resume their official and domestic work pending in the UK.

Earlier, the British government utilised the services of British Airways by operating several flights between Heathrow and Amritsar. — TNS