Air India plans to operate 230 special Haj flights to Jeddah from seven cities — Delhi, Srinagar, Mumbai, Kochi, Hyderabad, Panaji and Nagpur.
These flights will be operated in two phases, starting on Sunday, and would fly a total of 38,000 Haj pilgrims directly to Jeddah, Air India said in a release.
A total of 115 special flights from these cities will be operated and will continue till September 17.
In the return phase, another 115 flights would be operated to ferry back the pilgrims and such flights will continue in operations till October 28, the airline said.
