Domestic Flight Operations to Resume in India From This Date, Civil Aviation Ministry Reveals

New Delhi: The Narendra Modi-led government is mulling to resume domestic flight services in the country. Union Minister of Civil Aviation Hardeep Singh Puri has said that domestic flight operations in India might resume within a week but only after evaluating all factors. Also Read – COVID-19: Lockdown Not to Result in Increased Birth Numbers as 80% People Less Likely to Conceive During Coronavirus

Speaking exclusively to Outlook Magazine, Puri said that if all goes according to plan domestic flight operations can start before May 15. Also Read – Trending News Today May 09, 2020: Tablighi Jamaat: Delhi Police Crime Branch Finds Maulana Saad’s Audio Clip Doctored, Sends it to Forensic Science Lab

“My effort will be to try and move in the direction of starting it very soon. I can’t put a date on it because when you are planning evacuation operations, you need the co-operation of the state governments. In order to open up domestic civil aviation, I need the domestic infrastructure in place,” Puri told the magazine. Also Read – Salman Khan And Jacqueline Fernandez Bring ‘Tere Bina’ From Panvel Farmhouse, Waluscha D’Souza Interviews Them

“Once we start domestic civil aviation, it cannot be called rescue. We are beginning commercial operation, and everyone will be able to travel,” he added.

Meanwhile talking about resuming flights between green zones, Puri asserted that operating between green zones is easy. “But if you look at all the metropolitans, they are in red zone. We can’t leave them totally also. A decision will be taken on this in the next few days”, he told Outlook Magazine.

If reports are to be believed, the ministry will also issue a standard operating procedure (SOP) in this regard soon.

Notably, aviation is among the worst-affected sectors amidst the COVID-19 crisis. In India, all domestic and international commercial passenger flights have been suspended ever since the country imposed lockdown to combat the spread of the coronavirus pandemic.