Australian government urged to have standby system in place for next repatriation flight from India

Indian community leaders call on officials to do more to avoid a repeat of the scores of empty seats on the first post-ban flight

The Australian government needs to do more to avoid a repeat of the scores of seats left empty on the first post-ban repatriation flight from virus-ravaged India, one community leader has said.

Eighty Australians touched down in Darwin on Saturday morning and were moved to the Howard Springs quarantine facility on the city's outskirts.