Updated: December 21, 2020 11:38:00 pm
While the authorities are not yet allowing regular international flights, India and the UK had signed an air bubble deal.
India has joined with more than two dozen countries in banning inbound travel from the UK, where a mutated strain of the new coronavirus – reportedly 70% more infectious than the one that caused the Covid-19 pandemic – is spreading rapidly.
What flights have been suspended?
According to the Ministry of Civil Aviation, the government has decided that all flights from the United Kingdom to India will be suspended from 11:59 p.m. on December 22 to 11:59 p.m. on December 31. Consequently, flights from India to the UK will also be suspended during the period. India and the UK were connected by various airlines including Air India, Vistara, British Airways, Virgin Atlantic which connected London with Indian airports such as Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Bengaluru, Kolkata, Ahmedabad and Amritsar. While the authorities are not yet allowing regular international flights, India and the UK had signed an air bubble deal.
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What about passengers arriving in India on transit flights?
The government has said that as an abundant precautionary measure, passengers arriving from the UK on all transit flights, those taking off or flights arriving in India before 11:59 PM on December 22, should be subject to mandatory RT-PCR test arrival at the respective airports.
What other countries have banned flights from the UK?
Several major European countries, including Germany, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, Austria, Denmark, Sweden, and Switzerland, as well as countries such as Canada, Kuwait, Colombia, Morocco, Iran, Israel, and Turkey, have restricted their travel ties with the UK. . Saudi Arabia, in particular, has suspended all international flights for fear of the new strain of coronavirus.
However, in some of these jurisdictions, only passenger flights have been suspended and cargo flights continue to operate.
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