Three Qantas flights to pick up Aussies stranded in India

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The Qantas three flights from Delhi to rescue stranded Australians, costing $2300 a ticket and each carrying 188 passengers, sold out within about 20 minutes.

Qantas pilot David Summergreene, who will fly the first plane to Sydney, said it was an honour to rescue Australians stranded during the COVID-19 crisis.

Mr Summergreene, the first officer, flew an earlier repatriation flight to Lima to pick up Australians in Peru. He also operated a rescue flight out of Denpasar after the 2002 Bali bombings. "I have a job to do which is to fly an airplane but part of me wants to be on the apron to watch them get on the aircraft and see that sense of relief that they're finally getting home," he said.

"After the first Bali bombing, we did evacuation flights out of Denpasar and that's something to be honest with you I'll take to the grave - that ability to turn up with a Qantas aircraft and getting those people on board and getting them home." With Qantas not normally operating commercial flights to India, Mr Summergreene said there would be a lot of extra planning for the repatriation flight.

 

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They're not Aussies. They're Indians who got Australian paperwork. Leave them there.

Not pricey

Rus Fed, China, Cuba, Venezeula didn't charge their stranded citizens. They RESCUED them

Aaaah, that's not bad anyway! India doesn't, and didn't charge, from the people who were brought back to India from other countries.

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