Dubai suspends Air India Express flights over coronavirus violations

Dubai suspends Air India Express flights over coronavirus violations

Dubai's Civil Aviation Authority has suspended Air India Express flights to the city until October 2 for bringing passengers with Covid-positive certificates twice during the last couple of weeks.

A senior Air India Express on Friday confirmed to Arabian Business the suspension of its flights to Dubai.

Air India Express is understood to be operating its four Dubai flights, scheduled to operate from India on Friday, to Sharjah instead.

As per the UAE government rules, each passenger travelling from India needs to bring the original Covid-negative certificate from RT-PCR test done 96 hours prior to the journey.

The decision to suspend Air India Express flights from September 18 to October 2 is said to be in the wake of a Covid positive passenger on Air India Express' flights to Dubai on August 28 and