5-Year-Old Flies Home Alone, Mother At Airport, Reunion After 3 Months

New Delhi:

As flights restarted in India in the present day after two months due to the coronavirus lockdown, just a little boy in Bengaluru airport carrying a “special category” ticket was among the many most heartwarming sights of the day.

Five-year-old Vihaan Sharma travelled alone from Delhi, and walked into the arms of his overjoyed mom at Bengaluru’s Kempegowda International Airport. He travelled as a particular class passenger.

“My five-year-old son Vihaan has travelled alone from Delhi, he has come back to Bengaluru after three months,” his mom advised information company ANI, holding Vihaan, wearing all-yellow with an identical masks, and blue gloves.

Welcome house, Vihaan! #BLRairport is consistently working in the direction of enabling the protected return of all our passengers. https://t.co/WJghN5wsKw

– BLR Airport (@BLRAirport) May 25, 2020

Domestic flights operated on Monday for the primary time since late-March, when the nation went into lockdown to interrupt the chain of coronavirus. Many had been caught in cities they had been visiting when all flights had been stopped.

Till 9 am in the present day, Bengaluru airport had 5 flights in and 17 departures. Vihaan’s flight was amongst them. Nine flights had been cancelled.

The flights resumed after what Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri mentioned was “a long day of hard negotiations” on Sunday with numerous state governments that weren’t on board with the thought. With the variety of coronavirus instances touching 1.Three lakh, the federal government has introduced a collection of dos and don’ts that may start with social distancing on the airport and no-contact examine in. The aviation minister has indicated that worldwide flights may start in June.

Those who took first flights included paramilitary personnel, military males, college students and migrants who had didn’t e book a ticket on particular trains being run by the railways.

With inputs from ANI