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Air India flies out stranded passengers from Leh

10-Aug-2010
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Air India flies out stranded passengers from Leh
Air India operated three special flights between Delhi and Leh on Sunday, 8th August 2010 to evacuate stranded tourists and passengers from Leh.

In these three special flights Air India flew out 331 passengers from Leh charging single economy class of fare of Rs. 9000/- (inclusive of all Taxes) instead of the regular fare of Rs. 11661/-.

Air India has also decided to operate four special flights on Monday, 09th August 2010 between Delhi and Leh with the first flight scheduled to leave Delhi at 0525 hrs, second at 0530hrs third at 0815 hrs and fourth flight at 0915 hrs. The special fare of Rs. 9000/- (including Taxes) in economy class will be applicable on all flights ex-Leh to Delhi. Besides these four flights, Air India will also operate one additional flight between Leh and Jammu and one flight between Srinagar and Leh.

Till date Air India has operated a total of six special flights to/from Leh, out of which five flights were for Delhi and one flight for Jammu and has flown out 553 passengers to Delhi and 103 passengers to Jammu.

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