Britain announces 7 more charter flights from Amritsar for stranded citizens

Tribune News Service
New Delhi, April 30

Britain has announced seven more charter flights from Amritsar to bring over 2,000 of its stranded citizens home.

Once these flights are completed, over 15,000 British travellers will have been brought back from India on 59 flights chartered by the government, said a British High Commission announcement.

The new flights to London Heathrow will take off from Amritsar for seven consecutive days beginning May 5.

Acting British High Commissioner to India Jan Thompson said, as with the last round of flights, seats on the planes will be allocated to those who have already registered via the British government’s online booking portal.

Britain is in the process of completing the fourth round of 14 special flights from Amritsar, Ahmedabad and Delhi. Almost 2,000 of them stranded in Punjab have been boarding special flights from Amritsar beginning from April 28 to May 4. The lone flight from Delhi took off today.

Instead of asking passengers to pay higher charges for chartered flights, UK has provided a £75 million support for such flights to priority countries like India to help the most vulnerable people.