The government has tasked Air India with another rescue mission, this time to ferry hundreds of expats stranded in the country to Frankfurt, and some of the crew members assigned the job are unhappy. They asked why should they risk their lives ferrying foreigners to their countries.

Nine flights are scheduled to operate from Mumbai to Frankfurt between March 31 and April 3. A domestic crew of the national carrier will on Tuesday morning bring a number of expats from Thiruvananthapuram to Mumbai, from where they will be sent home in batches. Some members of the cabin crews that will be flying aboard the nine relief flights to Frankfurt said they were alright with rescuing Indians stranded abroad, but it is not fair to ask them to ferry foreigners to their home countries.