Air India operated a special flight from New Delhi to Bangladesh capital Dhaka on Wednesday morning, bringing 205 people, including six children, to India, an official said.
The chartered flight, operated by an A321 Neo aircraft, departed from Dhaka on Tuesday night and brought 205 people, including six children and 199 adults, to India, the official said.
An official privy to the development said Air India operated the special flight at very short notice despite infrastructure challenges at the airport in Dhaka. He said there were no passengers on board the flight that took off from Delhi.
Air India will resume operations of its two daily flights between Delhi and Dhaka from Wednesday. On Tuesday, the company had cancelled its morning flight to the Bangladesh capital but the evening flight departed on time.
Vistara and IndiGo will also operate flights to Dhaka as per schedule from Wednesday. Both the companies had cancelled all their flights to Dhaka on Tuesday in view of the situation in Bangladesh. Vistara operates daily flights to Dhaka from Mumbai and three flights a week from Delhi.
At the same time, IndiGo usually operates one flight each from Delhi, Mumbai and Chennai to Dhaka daily, while it operates two flights from Kolkata. Bangladesh is facing an unprecedented political crisis due to the sudden resignation of Sheikh Hasina, who was in power for the last 15 years, from the post of Prime Minister and leaving the country amid weeks of violent protests against the controversial reservation system.
Under this reservation system, 30 percent of jobs were reserved for the families of those who fought in the 1971 Liberation War. More than 300 people have lost their lives in violent anti-government protests.
