The flight cost approximately $10,000 per detainee. A one-way business class ticket from San Francisco to New Delhi on commercial airline would cost $4,000.

The recent deportation of 104 Indian immigrants by the US likely cost around $1 million, as military flights are more expensive than civilian options.

Indian airport officials say a U.S. military plane carrying 104 deported Indian migrants has arrived in a northern Indian city, the first such flight to the country as part of a crackdown ordered by t