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Air India & Indian Airlines Getting Ready For War

United777 From United States of America, joined May 1999, 1648 posts, RR: 1
Posted (10 years 2 months 1 week 1 day 7 hours ago) and read 2154 times:

Air India and Indian Airlines once again just like the Gulf War is getting ready to airlift thousands of Indians from the gulf region especially Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. Many of the Indians there are labor workers.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/2862403.stm

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B747-437B From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 1, posted (10 years 2 months 1 week 7 hours ago) and read 2080 times:

More details at :

http://www.airliners.net/discussions/general_aviation/read.main/1024235/

United777 From United States of America, joined May 1999, 1648 posts, RR: 1
Reply 2, posted (10 years 2 months 1 week 4 hours ago) and read 2054 times:

Thanks B747-437B. I was looking for that same topic when I posted mine.

Jaysit From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 3, posted (10 years 2 months 1 week 3 hours ago) and read 2044 times:

Do BA and Virgin do this for British passengers? I don't think so.
Then why on earth does the Indian government create such a ruckus. It was understandable the last time when they airlifted Indians out of Kuwait and Iraq (two countries at war). But here they are creating a pandemonium by attempting to airlift Indians out of Saudi Arabia, etc etc.

I'm sorry, but I think that if Indian workers in neighboring countries are so fearful of their lives, they should march to the nearest airline counter and BUY themselves a one-way ticket home. Take responsibility for their own decision to leave Trivandrum and work in the Gulf oilfields. The Indian government has no business giving them free passage, especially when this war in all likelihood is not going to affect them.

United777 From United States of America, joined May 1999, 1648 posts, RR: 1
Reply 4, posted (10 years 2 months 1 week 2 hours ago) and read 2038 times:

I think there are way more British than Indians in the Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. I think I have heard Indians are Kuwait and Saudi Arabia's largest minority race.

Jaysit From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 5, posted (10 years 2 months 1 week 2 hours ago) and read 2035 times:

According to the BBC, there are 30,000 Britons in Kuwait.
Yet, BA cancels its flights to and from Kuwait, but AI goes into a panic.

United777 From United States of America, joined May 1999, 1648 posts, RR: 1
Reply 6, posted (10 years 2 months 6 days 22 hours ago) and read 2004 times:

AI used 744's and A310's. They flights have arrived in India from Kuwait.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/xml/uncomp/articleshow?msid=40842376

B747-437B From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 7, posted (10 years 2 months 6 days 21 hours ago) and read 1986 times:

The Times of India report is inaccurate. AI used 747-200s on this morning's flights and not 747-400s.

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