First, checks at Kolkata airport for incoming passengers are so cursory that they beggar belief.
July 20, 2020Aviation minister Hardeep Singh Puri had in May said that if the virus gets under control, the international flights could resume as early as mid June.
June 8, 2020The US action, which takes effect June 16 but could be implemented sooner if President Donald Trump orders it, applied to seven Chinese civilian carriers.
June 4, 2020However, if passenger load does not permit this kind of an arrangement, then the middle seat passenger has to be provided with protective equipment like a wrap around gown in addition to the three-layer mask and face shield.
June 1, 2020Domestic services were suspended in India due to the coronavirus-induced lockdown and resumed after a gap of two months on Monday.
May 31, 2020On Tuesday, IndiGo had said that a passenger who travelled on 6E 381 from Chennai to Coimbatore on May 25 evening tested positive for COVID-19.
May 28, 2020With nearly 360,211 confirmed cases, Brazil now has the second-highest number of patients in the world, after the United States which has 1,643,499, according to Johns Hopkins data.
May 25, 2020Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing for the national carrier and the Centre, argued that the 'best practice is testing and quarantine and not seat difference'.
May 25, 2020Goa Health Minister Vishwajit Rane said on Saturday that he had requested the Civil Aviation Ministry and Indian Council of Medical Research to allow the state government to conduct antibody testing of passengers after they land.
May 24, 2020Delhi International Airport Limited, CEO, Videh Jaipuriar said that it is 'very important to resume flight operations because we have to actually learn to live with corona.'
May 23, 2020The airline will run these special ferry flights during the second phase of the repatriation mission as part of the total sector from international cities to domestic cities through major hubs like Delhi or Mumbai.
May 14, 2020In the first leg of evacuation, the national carrier Air India along with its subsidiary Air India Express is operating a total of 64 flights — 42 by Air India and 24 by Air India Express — to 12 countries to repatriate 14,800 Indians back.
May 12, 2020The ministry said that the national carrier India along with its subsidiary Air India Express is operating a total of 64 flights -- 42 by Air India and 24 by Air India Express -- to 12 countries to repatriate 14,800 Indians back in the first phase.
May 12, 2020The Government had on Monday said it will facilitate the return of Indian nationals stranded abroad on compelling grounds in a phased manner from May 7.
May 5, 2020The announcement comes days after the Ministry of Civil Aviation informed on April 14 that all domestic and international scheduled airline operations have been suspended till 11.59 pm of May 3, the day the lockdown ends.
April 18, 2020Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri, however, stated that the Government could consider ending the restrictions on domestic and international flights after May 3.
April 14, 2020Cabinet Secretary Rajiv Gauba has asked state governments to step up the surveillance of international passengers who reached India before the government banned commercial flights from abroad from landing in the country.
March 27, 2020