Union Cabinet's appreciation for the staff of Air India who travelled to Wuhan to evacuate Indians is indeed heart warming for the entire Air India family and would go a long way in inspiring Air Indians to keep going beyond the call of duty in serving the nation. Jai Hind

More than 600 Indian students and citizens have been evacuated from #Wuhan following the #CoronavirusOutbreak. The #Cabinet appreciates @airindiain & its crew for the fearless service rendered and for putting 'duty' before self: Union Minister Prakash Javadekar #CabinetDecisions

Alliance Air Prakash Javadekar #Cabinet approves dispensation to Alliance Air for enabling commencement of International flights between #India and #SriLanka Details here: pib.gov.in/PressReleasePa… #CabinetDecisions

H1 results of Air India Express are stupendous. With a growth of revenues by 40% over similar period of last fiscal and a PBT of 680 crores representing a growth of 283%, this low cost airline in the public sector has indeed shown the way.

First new flight AI 177 from Mumbai to Heathrow started today. This inaugural flight is fully booked and will ease the traffic between mumbai and london

This new air india flight wd be followed up by mumbai Stansted 3/w flight wef 20th february thereby making the total frequency between mumbai and London to 13 per week.

Tourism across the globe would witness a major shift from international to domestic as a consequence of the corona impact. How and where people travel is the one major thing that would witness a substantial impact.

Excellent decision taken by government in opening up the domestic aviation in a limited way. A very balanced view has been taken on the fare structure as well as the number of flights. A good balance between lives and livelihoods has been achieved.

Tremendous effort by Delhi, Mumbai and other airports to maintain social distancing. Indeed gratifying are the efforts being made by entire aviation sector in making flights possible despite the extremely stressed environment due to COVID. Great leadership by MOCA.

Coronavirus is slowly but steadily leaping out of control. And many of us say that we have to learn to live with this virus. Live we must but things are getting difficult as even hospital beds for treatment are becoming a rare commodity.

With a robust Vande Bharat Mission & now with steady growth in domestic operations our airports & skies are abuzz with activity again. On 21st June 2020, Day 28 of recommencement of domestic flights we had 773 departures with 64,787 passengers.

India has become a global manufacturing hub for PPEs and ventilators. When lockdown was announced, India was not producing any PPE kits. Now, India is producing 600,000 PPE kits and 1,000 ventilators daily. We will now shortly be exporting ventilators, masks, PPE. (5/6)

More than 147K Indians have returned on Vande Bharat flights & more than 52K have flown out to different countries so far. 4504 people have returned to India on 27th June 2020. VBM is one of the largest & immensely successful evacuation missions undertaken in recent times.

Never before has a steely resolve to protect the nation and a bold display of national pride been made as strongly as has been witnessed recently during the visit of our beloved prime minister to the border areas in ladakh. Proud to be an indian. Jai Hind.

The COVID Vaccine report of ICMR has brought positivity. Despite what scientists say about timeframes, the fact remains that if the vaccine effort is successful as scheduled, it would be the biggest ever achievement of mankind in this century. Humanity would then indeed live.

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Connecting India 🌉: Magnificent Anji Khad Bridge, India's 1st cable-stayed rail bridge, will connect Katra and Reasi in Jammu & Kashmir. Being constructed with superior technology & engineering excellence, the bridge will be a milestone for a better & more connected India.

Hill states can look forward to revival of aas paas tourism from adjoining states. For uttarakhand and himachal I can forsee a lot of movement from delhi itself. It is necessary for such states to be ready infrastructurally and aggressively promote tourist destinations.

On JRD's birthday I remember his words - “Good human relations not only bring great personal rewards but are essential to the success of any enterprise.” J. R. D. Tata

Deep Srivastava my friend and an aircraft captain with uttarakhand govt passed away recently due to covid. A great human being he was and his wife Tanu has beautifully expressed her feelings m.facebook.com/story.php?stor…