Abu Dhabi: The India Social & Cultural Centre, Abu Dhabi has temporarily offered its premises to the Air India Office Abu Dhabi to be used as a temporary ticketing office for repatriation flights. The temporary office will start functioning from July 10 onwards between 9 AM and 6 PM daily.
A statement released by the ISC read, “…we have received a humanitarian request from the Air India Office Abu Dhabi, to use our premises as temporary ticketing office for repatriation flights.”
It explained that the “Vande Bharat Mission” ticketing services were temporarily suspended as large crowds were forming around Air India Express’ city office in Khalidiya, causing a lot of inconvenience to the neighbouring commercial establishments and residents and also a law and order problem in the area.
“Since it is a humanitarian gesture from our side to our fellow Indians who are facing lot of problems due to pandemic situations and going back to India by the repatriation flights, it is our moral responsibility to help the distressed people by offering our premises to Air India to function their office temporarily for issuing air tickets to our community people. In this regard we have obtained a special permission from the relevant authority to provide our premises for a limited period,” the statement continued.
“We would like to inform you that Air India Express Office will be functioning temporarily at ISC premises from 10th July, 2020 from 9.00 am to 6.00 pm daily with proper COVID-19 protocol,” it added.
