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US citizens, expats rushing home amid second Covid-19 wave in India

While travel firms are seeing a surge in inquiries, Air India is operating extra flights from Delhi to New York, Newark, and San Francisco and higher capacity Boeing 777 aircraft from Mumbai to Newark

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Aneesh Phadnis Mumbai
US citizens and expatriates from Europe are travelling back home amid a sharp surge in Covid-19 cases in India and government advisories asking them to return.
 
While travel companies are seeing a surge in inquiries, Air India is operating extra flights from Delhi to New York, Newark, and San Francisco and higher capacity Boeing 777 aircraft from Mumbai to Newark to cater to the demand.
 
“There is a huge surge in inquiries for travel to the US in the past two-three days. Apart from US citizens, green card holders and Indians whose children work in the US too