After two months of no flight operations across the country, domestic passenger flights are finally resuming today with a reduced number. Amid much confusion over the stand of state governments in resuming flight services, passengers started to queue up outside airports from the previous night to catch early morning flights back home.
Civil Aviation minister Hardeep Singh Puri said in a tweet on Monday morning, “Today, we restart domestic flights. India’s civil aviation is always on the forefront.” However, several passengers waiting for their flights in Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad and other airports complained that their flights were cancelled without any prior notice.
Here’s all you need to know on resuming of domestic flights:
1. Around 80 flights flying in and out of the Delhi Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport have been cancelled on the first day of flight operations resumption.
Passengers of an Air India Bengaluru-Hyderabad flight said their flight has been cancelled, without prior notice from the airline. According to ANI, the passengers said, “Only when our boarding passes were scanned at the airport entry we were told that boarding has been cancelled. We don’t know what to do now.”
Another passenger at Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji International airport said that her Air India flight to Delhi has been cancelled without prior notice.
2. The first flight from Lucknow took off for Ahmedabad on Monday morning. Another flight from Bengaluru to Ranchi took off 5.15 am with 173 passengers and 3 infants.
3. Confusion continued till late night before the resumption of flights over the number of flights being operated from different airports and whether the state governments such as Maharashtra and West Bengal, who had raised objections to resuming flights, will operate flights.
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