India has started evacuating Indians from conflict-ridden Sudan under “Operation Kaveri.” Indian citizens are being evacuated in several batches by the Indian Navy and the Indian Air Force aircraft.
Now, private carriers in India are also showing their willingness to operate charter flights from India to Jeddah for evacuation. India’s low-cost carrier Indigo has offered its services to the government regarding evacuation under Operation Kaveri. “We have offered our services for charter flights to Jeddah under the Indian Government’s Operation Kaveri rescue mission of our citizens from Sudan,” an IndiGo official said.
“We are still awaiting details from the ministry to launch these flights, nothing has been confirmed as of yet,” further airlines company added.
Asked whether Air India (AI) is operating a flight to evacuate Indians under Operation Kaveri. A senior AI official told ANI, “The AI is very capable of doing evacuation drills. However, no such request has been received so far.”
The evacuation operation started in Port Sudan. A number of estimated 300-500 Indian citizens have been evacuated by ship and other evacuation processes are going on. (ANI)
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