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Vande Bharat Mission: Air India Exp Airline with 166 Indian Nationals from Muscat lands at RGIA

| @indiablooms | May 19, 2020, at 11:21 am

Hyderbad/UNI: Under the second phase of Vande Bharat Mission, Air India Express Airline IX 0818 from Muscat (Oman) with 166 Indian Citizens landed at Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGIA) at Shamshabad near here at 2012 hours on Monday night. All arriving passengers were serviced through the fully sanitized International Arrivals of the Main Passenger Terminal of RGIA , a statement said last night.

To facilitate the arriving passengers and aircraft crew, the RGIA has kept the international arrivals and the entire stretch right from the aerobridge to the arrivals ramp fully sanitized and fumigated.

This included - sanitization of every nook and corner of building and public areas including washrooms, chairs, counters, trolleys, railings, doors, lifts, escalator’s etc.

The RGIA also enforced the social distancing among passengers right from the aerobridge to across the terminal.

All arriving passengers and aircraft crew were brought out from the aircraft in a batch of 20-25 persons each. Each passenger/crew was screened by the Thermal Cameras positioned at the aerobridge exit under supervision of the Airport Health officials (APHO) as per the directives of Ministry of Health & Family Welfare prior to Immigration formalities, the statement added.  
 

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