The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) issued a circular on Friday extending the suspension on scheduled commercial international flight operations to and from India till July 15.<\/p>\n
The restriction, however, will not be applied on all-cargo flights and other flights specially approved services by the DGCA.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe competent authority has decided that scheduled international commercial passenger service to\/from India shall remain suspended till 2359 hrs IST of 15th July 2020,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n
On June 20, Union Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said that the re-commencement of international flight services will depend on factors like \u2018border acceptance\u2019 norms in the arriving country and the traffic demand.<\/p>\n
That time, he hinted at the prospects of bilateral bubble arrangements, which will allow some international operations between countries.<\/p>\n
At present, healthy demand for evacuation flights have been witnessed in the North America-India sector.<\/p>\n
Passenger air services were suspended on March 25 due to the nationwide lockdown to check the spread of COVID-19, although domestic air services has resumed in a phased manner.<\/p>\n
Subsequently, domestic flight services resumed from May 25. At present, airlines are only allowed to deploy 33 percent of their total capacity.<\/p>\n
Earlier in the day, Puri tweeted that in one month since the recommencement of calibrated domestic civil aviation operations in the country \u201cour skies & airports have been busy\u201d.<\/p>\n
Around 18,92,581 passengers have flown so far on 21,316 flights across the country, he said.<\/p>\n
Last week, Puri had said that to ease domestic mobility and accelerate passenger traffic growth, the Centre will allow flights to more destinations.<\/p>\n
Nevertheless, these new flights and frequencies are likely to be within the 33 percent capacity cap, he had said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Restriction will not be applied on all-cargo and DGCA-approved flights The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) issued a circular on Friday extending the suspension on scheduled commercial international flight operations to and from India till July 15. The restriction, however, will not be applied on all-cargo flights and other flights specially approved services by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48799,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,20],"tags":[3491,1500,3959],"class_list":["post-48798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-india","tag-air-india","tag-dgca","tag-international-flights"],"yoast_head":"\n