Sonu Sood Arranges Flight To Bring Back Students Stuck In Kyrgyzstan

SpiceJet on Thursday said it would operate nine charter flights in association with Sonu Sood to repatriate over 1,500 Indian students from Kyrgyzstan during the next two months. “SpiceJet operated the first charter flight from Bishkek (capital of Kyrgyzstan) to bring back 135 students to their hometown of Varanasi today,” the airline said in a press release.

Hi students of Kyrgyzstan, just to update all of you we are postponing the flight from KYRGYZSTAN—VARANASI to tomorrow, 23rd July due to weather conditions. Students who have not registered, kindly do it today. The timings of the flight for tomorrow I will update in few hours.

— sonu sood (@SonuSood) July 22, 2020

On Friday, Sonu tweeted to inform students from Vizag, studying on Kyrgyzstan, a flight to take them home has been arranged. He tweeted: “Good news friends Flight from Kyrgyzstan to Vizag will takeoff at 3 pm today, 24th July from Bishkek..be at the airport on time time folks. Time to meet your families.”

Scheduled international passenger flights continue to remain suspended in India since March 23 due to the coronavirus pandemic. “SpiceJet…will operate nine charter flights to evacuate over 1,500 Indian students stranded in Kyrgyzstan for over two months. This special repatriation mission…has been undertaken by SpiceJet in association with film actor Sonu Sood,” the press release noted.