The restrictions will not apply to international all-cargo operations and flights specifically approved by the DGCA, according to the official circular

The Kingdom's interior ministry has announced temporary suspension of flights effective from 1800 GMT Wednesday. The country has also received first vaccine shipment delivery from Pfizer-BioNTech

IndiGo CEO said on an earnings call on Thursday that short-haul international flights might start during April-June period. He said that the government is working on reopening international flights gradually

The Directorate General of Civil Aviation on Thursday extended the suspension of scheduled international commercial passenger flights till 11.59 pm on February 28, 2021

Ireland banned passenger flights and ferries on December 21. Some 30,000 people had travelled to Ireland from Britain in the previous two weeks, during which time the new variant was spreading rapidly in parts of Britain

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.\"

The Independent Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) has requested the government to put the entire country under the 'Tier 4' category of lockdown

The mutant coronavirus which had Britain reimposing strict lockdown has made its way to India. Out of 33,000 passengers who came from the UK ,between November 25 and December 22, 114 passengers tested positive for coronavirus out of which six of them have the new strain. Those positive for new coronavirus have been kept in single room isolation pods at special health care facilities by state governments and their close ones have also been quarantined. Watch the video for more details.

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

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It is important from the scientific community perspective that we do not put too much immune pressure on the virus, said Bhargava

A letter by Air India pilot noted that the airline has been at the forefront of relief missions, ferrying essentials, and conducting evacuation and repatriation flights around the world

In almost a week long suspension, thirty-seven single-trip flights to the UK across carriers of Air India, Vistara, British Airways, and Virgin Atlantic have been cancelled

The survey, which is based on over 15,000 responses from over 10,000 people from across 204 cities and conducted by online platform LocalCircles, also revealed that as many as 42 per cent of the respondents did not have any travel plan for domestic travel at all

InterGlobe Aviation share crashed 10% to Rs 1,356 against previous close of Rs 1,507. Share of SpiceJet too fell 10% to Rs 82.35 against previous close of Rs 91.45. 

The announcement comes days after the emergence of a new and highly transmissible coronavirus strain in the United Kingdom. Several nations, including India, have already announced a temporary ban on all flights from the country

European nations and other countries have started imposing bans on flights and travellers from the UK in an attempt to ensure that the new strain of coronavirus doesn't reach their shores

The new \"Global Engagement Pilots\" will act as instructors or cockpit observers on 35-day assignments at an equivalent annual salary that could reach $200,000, for a total potential cost of $32 million, one of the people said