The (MHA also announced giving permission to all Overseas Citizen of India and Person of Indian Origin card holders and all other foreign nationals to visit India for any purpose, except on a tourist visa

Under this graded relaxation, the government will restore all existing visas (except electronic visa, tourist visa and medical visa) with immediate effect

Vistara plans to operate two more weekly flights on the Delhi-Goa route and one more weekly flight on the Mumbai-Goa route

Cathay, which has stored around 40% of its fleet outside Hong Kong, said on Monday it planned to operate less than 50% of its pre-pandemic capacity in 2021

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The world's second-largest economy likely grew 5.2% in July-September from a year earlier, faster than the second quarter's 3.2%

Coronavirus impact: The low-cost carrier said it is committed to take all precautionary measures for a contactless and hassle-free travel experience for its customers

Scheduled international flights have been suspended in India since March 23 due to the coronavirus pandemic

Air India fears Gulf carriers will eat its market share on long-haul routes such as India-Europe, India-US and India-UK once travel restrictions are lifted

DGCA guidelines say those coming under category 1 will be given full refund by respective airlines for cancelled tickets

The guidelines came six days after the Supreme Court directed that a full and immediate refund should be given to passengers for the air tickets cancelled between March 25 and May 24

Meenakshi Malik, Commercial Director, last week tested positive and has been in home quarantine

SpiceJet will run flight operations thrice-a-week to London comprising twice from Delhi and once-a-week from Mumbai on an Airbus A330 aircraft which it took on a wet-lease for long-distance international routes

Italy has so far banned entry of people from high-coronavirus risk countries like the USA, India and Russia

Hardeep Singh Puri said the daily domestic traffic has reached 1.76 lakh passengers from 30,000 passengers when the civil aviation operations resumed on May 25

Air India on Thursday cancelled all 12 flights between Frankfurt and India till October 14 because Germany withdrew its permission to operate them

Abu Dhabi's sovereign investor Mubadala Investment Company will invest Rs 6,247.5 crore in Reliance Retail Ventures Limited, the retail arm of Reliance Industries; The Unified Payments Interface (UPI) transactions stood at Rs 3.29 lakh crore in September with number of transactions at 180 crore, NPCI data showed on Thursday; Full refund will be provided by airlines for tickets booked during the coronavirus lockdown for domestic or international travel upto May 24, the Supreme Court ordered on Thursday. Watch this and more on News Blast.Also Read: Reliance Industries to buy 2 million barrels of Canadian heavy crude to offset Venezuelan decline

Mubadala to invest Rs 6,247 crore in Reliance RetailAbu Dhabi's sovereign investor Mubadala Investment Company will invest Rs 6,247.5 crore in Reliance Retail Ventures Limited, the retail arm of Reliance Industries. This marks the second significant investment by the sovereign investment company in a Reliance Industries subsidiary after $1.2 billion investment in Jio Platforms earlier this year. This investment will translate into 1.40 per cent equity stake in the Mukesh Ambani-led retail ma...

The suspension on commercial international passenger flight services to or from India has been extended till October 31; The fifth phase of the opening up of the economy, that is Unlock 5.0, is set to begin from October 1; The chief executive of GlaxoSmithKline, the world's largest maker of vaccines, said she was optimistic the industry would be able to make an immunisation against COVID-19 widely available next year. Watch this and more on News Blast.Also Read: SC orders full refund for cancelled flight tickets during lockdown

The airlines have the option to open credit shells in the names of passengers who can use it to fly on any route before March 31, 2021