\"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

Prime Minister Modi suggested countries should consider a special visa scheme for doctors and nurses

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

Indian airlines are currently carrying 60 per cent of the total pre-COVID domestic passengers and this is better than most countries in the world, Remi Maillard, President and Managing Director, Airbus India and South Asia said in an interview

The airlines in India typically take aircraft from lessors (on lease) who are based overseas. IndiGo, for instance, has over 200 planes on lease, and so is the case with other airlines like SpiceJet, GoAir, Vistara and Air India

This does not mean flights have been banned between both the countries. Under the restricted arrangement, only 30 flights will operate out of Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad and Bengaluru to the UK in one week

COVID-19 vaccine memes: Keeping in mind India's love for food, netizens have come up with funny ways -- likely to be least resisted by Indians -- to vaccinate the country

This will be the world's largest vaccination programme covering the entire length and breadth of the country and all preparations are in place to initiate the programme on the principles of 'Jan Bhagidari', the Prime Minister's Office said in a statement

For the first time in the country, a small aircraft in the form of an air taxi is being used for services, said Khattar at the inauguration ceremony of the air taxi service

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 move comes after Riyadh announced a breakthrough at a summit on Tuesday to end the bitter political row in which Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt imposed a diplomatic, trade and travel boycott on Qatar in mid-2017

Indonesia's Navy had pinpointed the site of the missing aircraft and ships had been sent there, a Navy official said. Authorities did not say whether they believed there were survivors

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