Indian passengers can plan their journey to Dubai from July 15 onwards. They can start their ticket bookings now.
The latest decision of the UAE’s General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) has given some hope to the Indians employed in the GCC countries but stuck in India due to travel bans in the respective countries.
Such passengers can plan their journey to Dubai from July 15 onwards. They can start their ticket accordingly.
Though flight operations would be only on limited routes, a large number of Indian expatriates working in the GCC countries are hopeful of using the UAE route to go to Oman, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia.
It should be noted this not the resumption of scheduled flights, but special arrangement flights under air bubble pacts India has done with some countries.
“The feasibility of these travels beyond UAE will depend only on the travel protocols set by countries other than UAE,” said a UAE based travel operator.
“Bookings have started for flights from July 15 and we have receiving multiple enquiries, not only from India, but from all over GCC. The reason being vacation in schools and colleges and some expatriates, particularly college and school teachers are looking for options to go for vacation in case their travel back to join duty is assured,” he said.
It should be noted this not the resumption of scheduled flights, but special arrangement flights under air bubble pacts India has done with some countries.
India has entered into air bubble with around 24 countries. These countries include, Afghanistan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Canada, Ethiopia, France, Germany, Iraq, Japan, Kenya, Maldives, Nepal, Netherlands, Nigeria, Oman, Qatar, Rwanda, Tanzania, UAE, UK, Ukraine, and the USA as per recent updates.