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New Delhi:
National transport of passengers of the flights will resume from Monday, “in a calibrated manner”, the government said today.
The flights were stopped at the end of March, when the country went into lockdown to slow the spread of the coronavirus.
“The operations of the national civil aviation will recommence in a calibrated way from the Monday, May 25, 2020. All airports and airlines are being told to be ready for operations from May 25,” twitter ” Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Puri.
Standard operating procedures for the movements of the passengers are also being separately issued by the ministry, he said.
Domestic civil aviation operations will recommence in a calibrated way from the Monday, May 25, 2020.
All airports and airlines are being told to be ready for operations from May 25.
Standard operating procedures for the movements of the passengers are also being separately issued by @MoCA_GoI.
— Hardeep Singh Puri (@HardeepSPuri) May 20, 2020
The government has not indicated when international travel is going to restart.
Cargo flights, those for medical evacuation and special flights for repatriation of Indians stranded abroad have been operating during the running of the bulls.
The government as well as airlines have spoken of a “new normal” when the flights start again, with less passengers on a flight, mandatory masks, and the middle seat is left vacant for the physical distance.
Before, when the Prime Minister Narendra Modi had announced lockdown4 incremental easing of restrictions, the regulator of aviation DGCA had said that the scheduled commercial passenger flights would be suspended until 31 May.
Yesterday, the minister had tweeted that it was not until the central government alone to decide when domestic flights may resume.
“In the spirit of cooperative federalism, the government of the states where these flights take off and land must be prepared to allow civil aviation operations,” Hardeep Puri had tweeted on Tuesday.
The airlines have suffered huge losses from various countries stopped flights in your fight against the pandemic. India’s first blocked the entry of people from abroad and then stopped flights in total, as it was in total lockdown.
Between the state of the trains resumed a week ago.
The flights announcement comes as the biggest daily jump in infections by coronaviruses was reported in the country, with 5,611 new cases in 24 hours.
India has more than 100,000 cases and more than 3,300 people have died.
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