Vistara launches scheduled flight to Haneda on 16 June 2021

 Report by : Gan Yung Chyan, KUCINTA SETIA 

According to TATA SIA Airlines Limited, the parent company that owns Vistara, the Indian commercial airline is launching its first Dreamliner flight from Delhi to Haneda Airport, Tokyo, on 16 June 2021. The Dreamliner returns to Delhi from Haneda on 17 June 2021.

According to schedules, Vistara flight UK83 departs from Delhi for Haneda at 3 am local time and touches down in Haneda at 2.50 pm on 16 June 2021. It taxis in Haneda for one night before leaving Haneda for Delhi at 5.50 pm and arriving in Delhi at 11.35 pm under flight UK84 on 17 June 2021.

Vistara flies to Haneda on Wednesdays and lands in Delhi on Thursdays under India's travel bubble arrangement with Japan.

India has formal travel bubble arrangements with 13 other countries including the US, UK, Germany, France, Canada, the Maldives, UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, Nigeria, Iraq, Afghanistan and Japan. Hence, Vistara has continued its direct flights to Male and Sharjah which it commences on 21 January and 3 March 2021. 

If India's travel bubble arrangements with these 13 countries were not scrapped, the number of B.1.617 infections in these countries will continue to surge and the likelihood of covi spillover to other countries like Singapore and Malaysia is higher.