Seven more international flights expected with stranded Goans

PANAJI: Seven more international repatriation flights may touch down at Goa International Airport in a few days time with permission to land at Dabolim being sought from the director general of civil aviation. These flights are aside from the four repatriation flights from Sri Lanka which will bring back seafarers.

“One repatriation flight operated by Sri Lankan Airlines will arrive at Goa International Airport on Sunday with 162 passengers. The flight, UL 1147, will land around 10.20pm,” sources said.

“We have seven more repatriation flights getting in line. The work is on and nothing is finalised as of now,” an official said.

On Saturday, four domestic flights landed at the Dabolim airport with 152 passengers and 234 passengers took flights out to Delhi, Mysore and Bengaluru. Two flights were operated between Goa and the national capital.

IndiGo operated two flights while Vistara and Alliance Air operated one flight to Delhi and Mysore respectively.

Officials of the Airports Authority of India have noticed a slight increase in the number of passengers arriving by flights from the national capital and Bengaluru. On Friday, 87 passengers landed in Goa from Bengaluru and Delhi while 245 passengers took the three flights out of the state’s lone airport.