The stranded Indian journalists, who went to the West Indies to cover the T20 World Cup 2024, will take off from the hurricane-hit Barbados on Wednesday. Extending his support to the media persons, BCCI secretary Jay Shah offered them to fly with the Indian team on the special chartered flight arranged from Barbados to Delhi.
An Air India special charter flight named AIC24WC – Air India Champions 24 World Cup – is bringing back the Indian squad, its support staff, the players’ families, board officials and the Indian media, who have been stranded on the island for the past three days due to Hurricane Beryl.
Team India will return to the country on July 4, a special flight carrying the team will land in Delhi early morningThe team’s departure from stranded was delayed by Hurricane Beryl.
The flight arranged by BCCI’s Jay Shah will also carry the members of Indian media who were… pic.twitter.com/HqrAVHs7sL
— ANI (@ANI) July 3, 2024
A few journalists on Wednesday took to social media and thanked the BCCI secretary for the goodwill gesture.
Thank you @JayShah for getting Indian media home with triumphant Indian cricket team from Hurricane-hit Barbados.For all of us, it was the only way out of here with another storm expected tomorrow. The special Air India fight expected to land in Barbados by 1 am local time Jul 3 pic.twitter.com/OXOPZj7iM5— Bharat Sharma (@sharmabharat45) July 3, 2024
Special thanks to @JayShah for taking the initiative and ‘rescuing’ stranded Indian media in Barbados. As a gesture, the 20-odd media contingent have been offered to fly out with the Indian team on the special chartered flight from Barbados to Delhi!The special flight will take…— Vikrant Gupta (@vikrantgupta73) July 3, 2024
Finally getting out of Barbados tonight. Thanks to the efforts of @BCCI & @JayShah to put us on the chartered flight with the Indian team back to Delhi. It was proving to be an impossible task to get an exit out of the island after #HurricaneBeryl. The World Cup champions should…— Nikhil Naz (@NikhilNaz) July 3, 2024
Special thanks to @BCCI secretary @JayShah for ensuring Indian media contingent is rescued along with Indian Cricket team. As a kind gesture Indian media contingent will fly out with Indian team in the special charter from Barbados to Delhi on Air India Cricket 24 World Champions pic.twitter.com/dIqrJye4hj— Karishma Singh (@karishmasingh22) July 3, 2024
As per the schedule, the flight will take off from Barbados at 4:30 am (local time; 2 PM IST). It will take a 16-hour flying time to reach Delhi, where the team will land on Thursday at 6 am (IST) if there are no further delays in their departure.
The Grantley Adams International Airport here resumed its operations on Tuesday. Earlier, the Indian team was scheduled to leave around 6 pm local time on July 2 and arrive at 7:45 pm (IST) on Wednesday.
एयर इंडिया का बोइंग 777 बारबाडोस में लैंड कर चुका है। यहां काम करने वाली कर्मचारी ने कहा कि मैंने पहली बार यहां पर इतना बड़ा विमान लैंड करते देखा है। इसी से भारतीय टीम भारत रवाना होगी। pic.twitter.com/01wfMFJoUA— Abhishek Tripathi / अभिषेक त्रिपाठी (@abhishereporter) July 3, 2024
The Rohit Sharma-led side won the title after pulling off a thrilling seven-run win over South Africa in the final on Saturday. The players are set to be felicitated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi but the schedule of that event has not yet been finalised.
Hurricane Beryl has now become a Category 4 storm moving down from Category 5 and is headed towards Jamaica.
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