5 more flights for Britons stranded in Amritsar, Ahmedabad

The UK government on Thursday announced five further flights to bring home British travellers stranded in India due to the coronavirus lockdown, with four flights scheduled between Amritsar and London and one from Ahmedabad to London next week.

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) said that once these flights are completed, over 16,500 travellers will have been brought back from India on 64 special flights chartered as part of the government's 75-million pound repatriation programme during the coronavirus pandemic lockdown.

Our special charter flight programme has been a concerted effort, with daily flight departures to the UK from across India since 8 April alongside ongoing support to those who remain, said Lord Tariq Ahmad, Minister of State in the FCO for South Asia and the Commonwealth.

These further flights bring the number of planes chartered by the government to bring British travellers home from India to 64, he said.

As with the last round of flights, seats on the ...