The aviation and home affairs ministries will jointly decide on “further opening up of international air travel of passengers,” the Covid guidelines issued by the ministry of home affairs on Wednesday said. The guidelines will come into effect from February 1. Scheduled international flights were suspended on March 23 last year due to the pandemic.
New Delhi: Amid concerns over the new COVID-19 variant detected in the United Kingdom, the government has extended the restriction on flights between India and UK upto midnight of February 14, 2021. “The competent authority has further extended the restriction on flights between India and UK upto February 14, 2021 (23.59 hrs),” the DGCA said
Ahmedabad: Increase in business travel, coupled with a boost in tourism in 2019, had boosted passenger movement at the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport to 1.17 crore. However, the restriction on international flight movements and widespread travel restrictions due to the Covid-19 pandemic had led to a fall in passenger movement by 60% to 47.06
It has been a tough year for India’s aviation sector. Hit hard by the Covid-19 turbulence, it quickly went into a tailspin early in March 2020, with the sector seeing zero passenger movement for almost two months. Since then, the government has gradually raised the scheduled flight capacity, even as India remains the second-worst-hit Covid-19
New York: Boeing Co. set a target of designing and certifying its jetliners to fly on 100 per cent sustainable fuels by 2030 amid rising pressure on planemakers to get serious about climate change. Regulators currently allow a 50-50 blend of sustainable and conventional fuels, and Boeing said Friday it would work with authorities to raise
Dubai: One route at a time – that’s how the UAE’s latest budget airline intends to build a network. “We base the decision on the prospect of Wizz Air Abu Dhabi over the long run,” said Jozsef Varadi, Wizz Air’s CEO during an interview with Gulf News. “The pandemic is obviously a disturbing factor –
Amid the rising chorus of voices of women facing sexual harassment onboard flights, a victim shared her story facing sexual misconduct by a co-passenger sitting behind her on a recent Air Vistara flight from Delhi to Cochin. Priya (Named changed) said she was travelling from Delhi to Cochin on Air Vistara when a passenger in
People who knew Aditya Singh during his time as a graduate student at Oklahoma State University were shocked to learn the man arrested after living in Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport for three months was the man they knew. Jana Nelson is the Executive Director of the Mission of Hope homeless shelter, where Singh used to deliver
Dhaka: An Indian man was arrested at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) on Sunday night when he was trying to fly to London with a fake United Kingdom (UK) visa. The man was identified Shakthivel, 26, a resident of Noida of West Bengal in India, according to information on his passport. Sources at the
Airlines are issuing a flurry of travel waivers allowing travelers to change their travel plans amid a winter storm in the Midwest. A major winter storm blanketed parts of the middle of the country with snow that was forecast into late Tuesday in some areas, disrupting traffic and closing some coronavirus testing sites. The National Weather
