Regular international flights will resume on March 27th, according to Union Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia, since the coronavirus situation in India has improved.
Scheduled international flight services were discontinued on March 23, 2020, due to the emergence of COVID -19. Special international flights between India and approximately 35 other countries will operate under an air bubble beginning July 2020.
“I have already given a direction that restrictions on international flights, which were imposed due to COVID-19, be lifted,” Scindia said on the sidelines of an event here. The international flight services would be fully restored from March 27 as they were before the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic,” he added.
The minister also said that the Modi government held talks with the heads of Ukraine’s neighbouring countries, like Romania, Moldova, Slovakia and Poland, and set up a corridor for the evacuation of 18,000 Indian students from the war-hit country under the Operation Ganga’. It was for the first time that so many Indians were rescued from a war ravaged country, he claimed.
“Apart from the Indian students, we evacuated some citizens of our neighbouring countries like Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal, from Ukraine,” Scindia said.