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Several passengers said their flights were cancelled and complained that you get no inkling of the airlines as well as domestic services resumed after a lapse of two months on Monday.
Officials said that almost 80 flights to and from Delhi were cancelled due to the restrictions imposed by the state, officials said.
Several passengers in Mumbai and Bangalore also complained about cancellations.
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“Only when our boarding passes were scanned at the airport of entry told us that the shipment has been canceled. We don’t know what to do now,” a passenger of Air India Bengaluru-Hyderabad flight, according to ANI.
All commercial passenger flights resumed, except in Andhra Pradesh and West Bengal, after having been suspended at the end of March, when the government imposed a nationwide lockdown to slow the coronavirus of the pandemic.
The first flight from Delhi since the blockade was to Pune, we flew at 4:45 am, and the second was from Mumbai to Patna, which left at 6.45 in the morning. Both flights were operated by IndiGo.
“The first flight, coming out of CSMIA (Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport ) will be Patna, at 6:45hrs and arrival flight from Lucknow will be the first flight arriving at 8:20hrs operated by IndiGo,” Mumbai airport operator said in a statement.
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The first domestic passenger flight to arrive at Delhi airport, on Monday at 7.45 am was of Ahmedabad. It was operated by SpiceJet.
Thermal detection, shields
Hundreds of passengers wearing masks were seen in the airports across the country Monday as a security measure and airport staff in the protection of the gears of what we will evaluate.
News agency ANI twitter photo of passengers standing in long queues and use the protectors of the inside of an airplane.
“I was in Delhi, because the Budget of the Parliament of the session. Now, I’m going back to my home state of Odisha,” Anubhav Mohanty, the Biju Janata Dal lawmaker, said, according to ANI.
He was on a Vistara flight from Delhi to Bhubaneswar.
Cabin crew members were also seen in blue in the personal protective equipment (PPE) in the interior of the flights.
“I was nervous before the flight, but all passengers were taking precautions. Very few of the people who travel by now,” a passenger, who arrived in Pune said ANI.
Flights resumed after the ministry of civil aviation held a number of discussions with the states and representatives of the airline on Sunday.
“It has been a long day of hard negotiations with various state governments to resume the operations of civil aviation in the country. With the exception of Andhra Pradesh, which will begin in 26/5 and West Bengal in 28/5, domestic flights will recommence across the country from tomorrow,” civil aviation minister Hardeep Puri said in a tweet on Sunday night.
The state governments have issued their do’s and don’ts, including thermal detection, quarantine, social distancing in the airport and there is no contact, the check-in.
The government announced last Thursday that one-third of pre-lock security of the domestic flights will operate from Monday. The aviation minister Hardeep Singh Puri, has indicated that the international flights may start in the month of June.
‘The work comes first”
The flight attendants were also considered the use of masks at the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Terminal 3 of the Delhi airport.
A flight attendant, said it will have to interact less with the passengers now, after the coronavirus of the pandemic.
“We’re a little worried, but the work comes first. We’re going to get the personal protective equipment (PPE) kits of the airline,” Amandeep Kaur, a flight attendant, said ANI.
Food and beverage and retail outlets, also opened at the airport of domestic flights services resumed.
The Airports Authority of India (AAI) had last Thursday issued standard operating procedures (SOP) for airports, as part of the preparations for the renewal of domestic commercial flight operations/
Airports have been advised to ensure that the passengers of the seats should be done in such a way that to maintain the social distance between the passengers that use wheelchairs on the lock of the seats that are not to be used, with appropriate markers or tapes.
All passengers also must be registered with the Aarogya respective eras application on their phones as per the directives. Apart from this, alternate the check-in counters should be used to avoid the congestion.
The airport staff must be provided with PPE kits, masks, etc, and should also be provided with hand sanitisers.
(With agency inputs)
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