Ukraine becomes seventeenth nation to have air bubble plan with India

Till now, India had framed such courses of action with 16 nations – Afghanistan, Bahrain, Oman, Canada, France, Germany, Iraq, Japan, the Maldives, Nigeria, Qatar, the UAE, Kenya, Bhutan, the UK and the USA.

India has set up a different two-sided air bubble plan with Ukraine for activity of extraordinary global traveler trips between the two nations, Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said on Wednesday.

Till now, India had framed such plans with 16 nations — Afghanistan, Bahrain, Oman, Canada, France, Germany, Iraq, Japan, the Maldives, Nigeria, Qatar, the UAE, Kenya, Bhutan, the UK and the USA.

Under an air bubble settlement between the two nations, unique global traveler flights can be worked by their aircrafts into one another’s domains under prohibitive conditions because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

“To additionally enlarge the extent of global air availability, an air bubble plan is presently set up for trips between India and Ukraine, taking the quantity of such courses of action to 17,” Puri said on Twitter.

“Transporters of India and Ukraine will work between the two nations,” he included.

Planned global flights have been suspended in India since March 23 due to the Covid pandemic.

In any case, unique worldwide traveler flights have been working in India under the Vande Bharat Mission since May and under respective air bubble plans framed among India and different nations since July.