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When the pandemic started spreading across the country, all scheduled international flights and domestic passenger flights were suspended from March 23 and March 25, respectively. Scheduled domestic flights were restarted in a limited manner from May 25

AirAsia Group CEO Tony Fernandes said the company is assessing whether to invest in AirAsia India's operations or expand in ASEAN nations

RIL, TCS, and Infosys suffered an erosion in their m-cap for the week ended Friday. However, HDFC Bank, HDFC Ltd, Bajaj Finance Ltd and Bharti Airtel finished with gains

Stating his bullishness on revival of passenger activity in terms of air travel, Union Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said that the aviation sector was already on a steady path before the coronavirus pandemic

Analysts believe that airlines are currently operating at 50-55 per cent capacity on the domestic segment, and they are hoping that by the end of 2020, the domestic capacity should reach 75-80 per cent

This is an economy of contradictions: Micro economy is seeing signs of life while macro economy is in cold storage; stock markets divorced from the shrinking real economy; rural India is doing way better than urban India

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Experts say that the idea of having a capacity cap doesn't make sense unless the government wants to protect the smaller players like SpiceJet and GoAir who have been badly affected by the pandemic

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Unlock 3.0 guidelines: Schools, cinemas, metro trains will remain closed till August 31, while gymnasiums and yoga institutes will be reopened from August 5

Experts say this is just a beginning of a painful road ahead for the sector as the demand for air travel continues to remain muted due to a variety of reasons. Since the opening up of the domestic aviation sector in late May, the capacities of airlines remain quite low - 30-35 per cent

In July so far, average daily passenger growth has grown marginally by 2.1 per cent to 67,553 versus 66,133 in June while load factor (based on seats/departure factor of June-20) has moderated to 58.5 per cent

Instead of a sudden contraction in demand, airlines have been caught in a range-bound demand cycle which could be lethal for their survival

The Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation (CAPA) had in late April said that Indian airlines, excluding IndiGo, will need to raise a minimum of USD 2.5 billion to survive the temporary grounding of the operations due to the lockdown imposed to contain COVID-19 spread

IOC said though there was no closure of any of its refineries due to drop in demand of petroleum products, their operations were curtailed to the level of 39 per cent in April

Goa, which was declared coronavirus-free by April-end, has reported 67 fresh cases of the COVID-19, all of whom arrived in the state within the last two weeks after inter-state travel restrictions were eased

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