Combating coronavirus: Dubai-based Indian businessman to charter free flight for distressed expats

Combating coronavirus: Dubai-based Indian businessman to charter free flight for distressed expats

He has also given his employees the option to work in one of his plants in Coimbatore.. A Dubai-based businessman has chartered a flight from Sharjah to Kochi in Kerala to send back his employees for free.. A total of 125 employees will be repatriated on an Air Arabia aircraft carrying 168 passengers to India on June 15, according to R Harikumar, managing director of Elite Group of Companies.. The remaining passengers will be identified by the All Kerala College Alumni Forum (Akcaf) Covid-19 task force," Harikumar told Khaleej Times.. I have received state government approvals for the upcoming flight and is now awaiting permissions from Indian central government," he said.. Harikumar is also considering chartering a second flight. ". I am trying to arrange around 300 air tickets, wherein I pay for 70 per cent of the flight ticket expenses.". Harikumar said all his employees will be paid one-month leave salary. ". "Forty passengers have been identified to fly in the charter flight arranged by R Harikumar," said VS Biju Kumar, general secretary of AKCAF task force.. "We are also in the process of distributing 400 tickets for distressed Indians.. We have plans to charter three flights back home,"