Straight after the Home Ministry come up with new guidelines with regard to the countrywide lockdown in order to contain the coronavirus pandemic, DGCA, India’s aviation regulator announced the suspension of scheduled international commercial passenger flights will continue till midnight on June 30.
When will India give permission to regular International flights?
Point to be noted here is that domestic passenger flight services started in the country from Monday after a hiatus of two months since the lockdown was announced on March 25, when all scheduled commercial passenger flights were suspended in India. However, international air travel shall remain suspended, as ordered by the MHA.
The interesting thing to note here is that a decision on the timing might not entirely be India’s call, given that this depends pretty much on the destination country’s assessment of India being safe and consequent permissions that need to be issued to Indian carriers to fly to their airports.
And that’s where India could be at the far end of the pecking order because of the simple fact that Covid-19 cases graph are increasing in the country.
