Charter flights do not fall under any regular airline schedule. These are private flights, where the entire flights are booked by a sponsor — a person or an organisation.
Several people from West Bengal complained of being stuck abroad as the state government had prohibited all Vande Bharat Mission flights from entering the state, in the view of the rising number of the cases. Other VBM flights to Delhi, Mumbai were also not an option as the government restricted domestic flights from Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Ahmedabad, Pune and Nagpur.
Charter flights will be allowed from August 10. It is not yet known whether charter flights will be allowed to land on the lockdown days, as all other regular flights on lockdown days have been cancelled.