If you are planning to fly to Dubai from India in the next 15 days with Air India Express, then we have some bad news for you. You might have to change your plans, as Dubai just suspended Air India Express flights flying into the city for the next 15 days. Reportedly, Dubai Air India Express flights have been cancelled due to COVID scare. According to the UAE Government, Air India Express flew passengers with covid-positive certificates twice in the last few weeks.
It has been reported that a COVID positive person flew from Jaipur to Dubai on September 4, and a similar incident had happened earlier as well. So, now there will be no Air India Express flights to Dubai starting from September 18, until October 2.
According to the latest rules as outlined by the UAE Government, passengers must have a COVID-negative certificate in order to fly to the country. Furthermore, the Dubai Civil Aviation Authority has asked AI Express to pay for the medical services, and quarantine expenditure of the passengers in that flight.
Passengers who were seated in close proximity to the COVID-positive passengers had to undergo COVID test, and quarantine. The entire incident has been the onus of the handling agencies at the airports in India. The handling agencies have been asked to work with caution, and to put in place a three-tier checking mechanism so that such mistakes are not repeated in the future.