Welcome back: Flight with 168 Japanese professionals onboard lands in India; First since March

 After a long wait of over five months, the first lot of 168 Japanese executives and engineers including seven Indians employed with various India-based Japanese firms arrived in India on Wednesday evening.

The Japan Airlines 8839 aircraft that flew from Haneda airport was the first non-scheduled passenger charter flight from Japan to enter Indian airspace and land at New Delhi airport on August 5 with Japanese nationals ever since Indian government had banned operation of scheduled domestic and international flights operation in March as one of the measures to check the spread of COVID-19 pandemic. Read more...