Tired of waiting for a rescue from Canberra, a group of Australian travellers and aviation specialists have come together to organise charter flights for a rescue mission out of India.
A group of expats and aviation experts have banded together to organise a rescue mission to bring home hundreds of Australians stranded in India on private charter flights.Many say India's sudden coronavirus lockdown left them strandedThe operation comes after 1,300 Australians stranded in India put their name to an email calling on Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne to help get them home.
New Delhi resident and Australian expat, Simon Quinn, created a Facebook support group called Australians Stuck in India, which lobbied the Government for emergency flights. "I saw that lots of foreigners here were really struggling after the lockdown started," Mr Quinn told the ABC.Mr Quinn lives in India and speaks Hindi, which made the situation easier for him to handle."But for the average tourist, this was a really scary time," he said.
India has entered the third week of a nationwide lockdown that prohibits interstate and international travel, as the country continues to try and
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