Sonu Sood sponsors another flight for migrant workers; now to Dehradun

The actor also said he was looking forward to more such flights in the near future

Bollywood actor Sonu Sood has funded another chartered flight to help fly over 170 migrant workers to Dehradun in Uttrakhand from the city, in an aircraft operated by budget airline AirAsia India.

The Airbus A320 plane with 173 migrants onboard left from Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport (CSMIA) at around 1.57 pm, an AirAsia India spokesperson told PTI.

It landed at the Jolly Grant Airport in Dehradun at 4.41 pm, the spokesperson said.

"As another charter flight takes flight today, our efforts to help migrant workers stranded in various parts of the country have only grown stronger.