New Delhi:
The government on Thursday extended suspension of scheduled international commercial passenger services to and from India extended till December 31.
However, these restrictions won’t apply to cargo operations and services approved by the DGCA.
The DGCA also added that select international flights on limited routes may be allowed by competent authorities on case to case basis.
Union Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri had said that regular international flight services could be resumed when the domestic traffic would reach about 50-60 per cent and other countries would open up to international traffic.
Earlier, the suspension on commercial international passenger flights was extended till October 31.
The government has been suspending scheduled international and domestic flights in India since March 23 when the first lockdown was imposed across the country.Earlier,
The air passenger traffic in India has more than halved in October in comparison to the year-ago period. The civil aviation regulator said that Indian airlines carried 52.7 lakh passengers in October, which is 57.2 per cent less than the air passenger traffic recorded in the same month last year.