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Domestic commercial flight operations began from Mumbai on Monday morning in a calibrated way, in the midst of the relaxation of the restrictions of blockade, which was imposed on the 25th of March to contain the spread of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) outbreak.
The authorities in Mumbai (bombay) Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport (CSMIA) said that 45 flights have been scheduled to operate on Monday. However, the airport sources said that few more flights it is likely to be added to the schedule by the afternoon.
The airport operator, Mumbai International Airport Ltd. (MIAL), in a press release, issued late Sunday night, said: “As per the recent directive of the Union of Civil Aviation, the Minister and the government of the state, CSMIA will be the resumption of operations with 25 movements of output and 25 for arrivals from Monday. The first flight, coming out of CSMIA will be Patna, at 6.45 hours flight and arrival from Lucknow will be the first arrival flight at 8.20 hours operated by IndiGo.”
The low-cost airline, IndiGo, is scheduled for the use of its A320 aircraft to operate 19 flights (eight arrivals and 11 departures) of CSMIA on Monday. SpiceJet is expected to operate 10 flights (five departures and five arrivals). The airline will use their Boeing 738 aircraft for these flights.
Air Asia in India the use of its A320 aircraft to operate with two departures and two arrivals. Vistara, a full-service carrier, will operate four flights (two arrivals and two departures) from Mumbai airport on the day of today.
The national airline, Air India, is scheduled to operate four flights using two A320 aircraft and Boeing 787 — for the arrival and departure to Kochi and Delhi, respectively.
Air India’s subsidiary, Alliance Air, will use its ATR aircraft to operate two flights of arrival and departure Iud). While Air India Express will operate two flights with their B738 aircraft.
GoAir, a low-cost airline, is the only airline which will commence its flight operations from 1 June, but opened its online booking facility on Monday.
Of the total of 45 flights, 10 flights have been listed to be operated to and from Delhi, four, Kochi, Hyderabad, Varanasi, Bengaluru and Patna, two to be operated and from Calicut, Diu, Lucknow, Nagpur, Chandigarh, Gorakhpur, Allahabad, and a flight to Jaipur.
The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has issued guidelines that all arriving passengers would be selected for the temperature of his body and sealed in his hands with a mandatory 14-day quarantine at home.
However, there was a confusion due to last-minute changes in flight schedule as a result of the differences between the central and state government. Devendra Nath Tripathi, a passenger, wrote on twitter, “We are in the Mumbai Airport AI-809, and have no confirmation for the flight. Air India online status shows flight on time… the reality is sad… there are no taxis to go back… there is no water, in spite of a boarding card. Terrible management by #AirIndia”.
Mumbai airport, which is used to handle about 950 daily flights, was closed from the 25th of March, except for the removal and loading operations, due to the blocking of the restrictions.
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