Video: Indian expat family’s journey to Dubai on $75,000 jet amid COVID-19 flight suspension goes viral

Video: Indian expat family’s journey to Dubai on $75,000 jet amid COVID-19 flight suspension goes viral

Dubai: Some UAE businessmen and other expats, who were stranded after the suspension of the incoming flights from India to the UAE from April 25, are back in the UAE on private jets. But, the family of a perfume businessman in the UAE taking a jet to return to Dubai amid the COVID-19 flight suspension has gone viral in his home state, Assam, owing to two reasons. Mushtaque Anfar, owner of oud and perfume company Oudh Al Anfar perfumes, took the very first private jet from Guwahati, which does not have international flight services, and spent a whopping $75,000 for it. The eight-member family's flight, which landed in Dubai on Thursday night, hit headlines in local media across Assam. The reports said it was for the first time that a private jet from Dubai flew to the north-east Indian airport to pick up a family from there on its return trip. The first ever direct international flight to Guwahati was a special flydubai flight repatriating stranded Indians in the UAE during the COVID-19 repatriation drive, Vande Bharat Mission, on July 3, 2020. Speaking to Gulf News on Sunday, Mushtaque said he and his eldest son Abdullah Anfar, the managing director