AirAsia India operates nine flights with fully vaccinated crew

MUMBAI: Domestic air travel in India has become safer what with airlines operating flights with fully vaccinated crew. After Vistara operated a Delhi-Mumbai first, the first domestic flight with a fully vaccinated crew, early this week;

Air India Express

operated a Delhi-Dubai flight, India's first international flight with fully vaccinated crew and on Friday AirAsia India has upped the numbers by operating nine domestic flights with vaccinated crew.


The sectors flown by fully vaccinated crew included Bengaluru-Kolkata, Kolkata-Bengaluru, Bengaluru-Chennai, Chennai-Guwahati, Guwahati-Bengaluru,

Bengaluru-Pune

, Pune-Jaipur, Jaipur-Pune and Pune-Bengaluru, said AirAsia India in a statement.

``In keeping with AirAsia’s core values, ‘Safety Always’ and ‘People First,’ the airline has been conducting free inoculation drives for all its eligible Allstars and their dependants and became the first airline in India to announce that 99.5% of its guest-facing operational staff including pilots, cabin crew, security, ground staff, and catering operations had been inoculated with their first doses,'' the airline said adding that the operating crew members on these sectors were fully vaccinated, having received both doses.

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