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Covid-19 crisis: Infosys charters a flight to get back staff stuck in US

Plans to deploy more such planes to bring back other employees

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Infosys brought back more than 200, comprising staff and their family members, in a chartered flight on Monday. Photo: Twitter

Debasis Mohapatra Bengaluru
The Bengaluru airport was busier than other days on Monday. In a rare gesture, Infosys had brought back more than 200 people — comprising employees and their family members — in a chartered flight.  

The Infoscions, as employees of India’s second-largest information technology (IT) services company are called, were stuck in the US ever since the Covid-19 pandemic hit global airline services. According to sources, 76 families took a Qatar Airways flight from San Francisco on Sunday evening and reached Bangalore International Airport after a 20-hour flight.

Infosys declined to give details, but it is reliably learnt that these employees were stuck