\"If a mutation or variant of the virus comes in, by the time we open our summer schedule by April we will have our full pre-COVID-19 level of domestic traffic or even higher,\" says Minister of State for Civil Aviation Hardeep Singh Puri

Domestic air traffic is increasing day by day and has now reached about 3 lakh passengers a day, says Minister of State for Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri

The international travel restrictions imposed on March 25 made it challenging for the stranded Indians overseas to return to the country. In April, following their requests, the civil aviation ministry started the international repatriation flights under VBM

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Scheduled international passenger traffic continues to remain suspended in India since March 23, 2020, due to the coronavirus pandemic

Replying to a Zero Hour mention, Information and Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar said a lot of suggestions and complaints on the regulation of OTTs have been received

Addressing a press conference at the BJP's state office Kushabhau Thakre Parisar here over the Union Budget 2021-22, Puri also said that domestic flight services from Bilaspur town in Chhattisgarh will begin from March 1 under the regional connectivity scheme

Exercise of dispatching vaccines will continue till Wednesday, which will cover cities like Patna, Chandigarh, Lucknow, Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Bhubaneswar, Vijayawada and Guwahati

Vaccine movement has started, Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said on Twitter, adding that the first two flights operated by \"SpiceJet and GoAir from Pune to Delhi and Chennai have taken off\"

In a historic moment for Indian aviation, Air India's longest direct route flight, with all women crew landed at Kempegowda International Airport in Bengaluru on Monday

The direct distance between the two cities at opposite ends of the world is 13,993 km with a time zone change of around 13.5 hours, an Air India official said

Passenger flights resumed from the UK to India in limited numbers from Friday onwards after remaining suspended for 16 days due to the emergence of a new coronavirus variant in that country

The order also stated: 'Those who are found negative shall be kept in compulsory institutional quarantine for a period of 7 days followed by 7 days of home quarantine'

Flight bookings for travel between India and the UK have started. Air India said in a tweet that \"Booking for Air India flights between India & UK is open now\"

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New coronavirus strain: Puri said that there would be 30 flights operating between the two countries every week till January 23

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Operations till January 23 will be restricted to 15 flights per week each for carriers of the two countries to and from Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru & Hyderabad only, the Civil Aviation Minister said

Issuing a modified order in this regard, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) stated that international scheduled flights may be allowed on selected routes by the \"competent authority on a case-to-case basis.\"

This development comes amid reports of 14 new cases of the new COVID-19 strain in India, taking the number to 20