The Chinese capital on Wednesday canceled more than 60% of commercial flights and raised the alert level amid a new coronavirus outbreak, state-run media reported. The website of the Communist Party’s Global Times said that as of 9 a.m. Wednesday, a total of 1,255 flights to and from the capital’s two major airports have been scrapped.
More than 1.65 lakh people have travelled in 2,198 flights till Friday afternoon after the government allowed partial resumption of domestic services from Monday amid the coronavirus-induced lockdown.
The first flight from Delhi's IGI airport since resumption of domestic flight operations, lands at Pune. A passenger who has arrived in the city by the flight says,"I was nervous before the flight but all passengers were taking precautions.
Union Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri has said he don't understand the need for quarantine of passengers who have been given green status on Aarogya Setu app. His statement comes after a couple of states have issued advisory for passengers who are willing to travel once domestic flight operations are resumed from May 25 onwards.
Now that the government has decided to resume domestic flight operations in the country after two months of grounding, it is also making sure that the fares don't jump out of control. A Delhi-Mumbai flight ticket will cost you upto ₹10,000. Here is how flight tickets will be priced.
Union Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Thursday addressed a presser on new air travel guidelines ahead of the resumption of domestic flight services from May 25 onwards.
The Airports Authority of India (AAI) issued new guidelines ahead of resumption of domestic flight services from May 25 onwards for airport operators, passengers on Thursday. As per the new Standard Operating Procedures (SoPs), AAI has said that the Aarogya Setu app will not mandatory for children below 14 years of age.
The Centre will come out with its guidelines on Lockdown 4.0 in the next 24 hours, sources in the Union Home Ministry said.
Chief of Indian Army, General MM Naravane, on May 13 reacted on Pakistan calling terrorist organisations Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) 'The Resistance Front'.
The Central government is likely to operate 64 flights from May 7 to 13 to bring home around 14,800 Indian nationals stranded abroad because of the coronavirus lockdown, said senior government officials on Tuesday.
Special evacuation flights for Indians stranded in the US due to the global travel restrictions put in place to contain the coronavirus pandemic are most likely to begin from San Francisco this week, according to officials.
A while after the Prime Minister Narendra Modi's announcement of nationwide lockdown extension, Indian Railways and Civil Aviation ministry announced to suspend their services till May 3.
Explaining the new rule, an official said the Wifi services onboard flights can be accessed from the time when the flight doors are closed, till the same opened for disembarkation.
An Indian Air Force aircraft carrying around 15 tonnes of medical supplies left for the coronavirus-hit Chinese city of Wuhan on Wednesday.
Besides, the airline's Calicut-Dubai flight was diverted to Al-Maktoum airport as it could not land in Dubai, an Air India spokesperson said.
The flight restrictions reflected fears that the conflict between the longtime foes could ratchet up following Iranian ballistic missile strikes Tuesday on two Iraqi bases that house U.S. troops.
Budget airline IndiGo on Friday announced that over the next two months it will start daily flights on six new routes which come under the Centre's regional connectivity scheme UDAN.
Flight operations on January 1, 2020 remained normal. The minimum temperature remained around 5-degree Celsius on Wednesday morning.
Delhiites woke up to dense fog on Monday morning as cold wave continues to batter Delhi-NCR and entire north India. The minimum temperature on Sunday night was recorded at 2.5-degree Celcius.
After fresh snowfall in Jammu and Kashmir and Himachal region, cold waves have gripped the entire northern states with the temperature dropping to below 6 degrees Celsius in Punjab and Haryana.
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