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New Delhi: A five-year-old boy who was traveling alone from Delhi under the “special category” to meet with your mother in Bengaluru after nearly three months, and 28 years of age, with two twins, who flew from new Delhi to his residence in Ahmedabad were among several passengers stranded in various parts of the country, who managed to “escape” to their homes, as the domestic flights began on Monday after two months of closure.
A total of 532 flights were operated on Day 1. In Delhi, 82 flights had to be cancelled on Monday.
“The indians rise up in the heavens again! A beautiful live capture of flight radar24 shows how our skies look busy again as the national civil aviation recommences in the India of today. With Andhra Pradesh to resume operations from tomorrow, and in the West of Bengal, of 28 of May, these numbers are increasing”, said the minister of state for civil aviation Hardeep Singh Puri, in a series of tweets.
With the persons covered with masks, face shields and gloves, the airports and the airlines staff of the EPI or kits of airports across India had a completely new look. In New Delhi Indira Gandhi International Airport, the paramilitary and the armed forces, the staff, the students, the tourists and the people who had not been able to book the tickets in special trains were among the first to take early morning flights.
In addition, with Id-ul-Fitr, which falls on a Monday, there was an unusual rush too much for families to get together. However, due to the limitations of public transportation available, many had to shell out large sums of money to get to the airport.
The first flight took off from Delhi to Pune at 4.45 am, while the first flight from Mumbai took off from Patna at 6.45 in the morning.
However, a large number of last-minute cancellations by the airlines, led to chaos, leaving thousands of passengers stranded at airports across India.
The aviation industry sources said a total of 630 of an estimated 1,150 domestic flights for which reservations had opened on the 22nd of May, were cancelled after some member states of Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu allowed only limited operations or delay the reopening of its airports, due to a spike in cases of coronavirus.
The West Bengal government not to give in to a request from the civil aviation ministry to allow the flights, and decided on the night of Sunday, the state gradually permit domestic flights from the 28th of May under strict rules.
Andhra Pradesh also do not allow the flights on Mondays, but start from Tuesday.
Thousands of passengers had reached the airport early in the morning of Monday, only to be informed by the staff of the airline that has several flights had been cancelled, causing difficulty for them. Some of them had traveled long distances, through states, to take the flights. Many people took to social networks to express their anger.
Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Bihar, Punjab, Assam and Andhra Pradesh, among others, announced quarantine measures for passengers arriving at their airports. Some states have decided to put the passengers in mandatory institutional quarantine, while others spoke of putting them under quarantine at home.
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