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Live updates: Domestic air travel in India starts after 2 months

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Indian skies opened up for domestic passenger services on Monday after a gap of two months, with Delhi-Pune and Mumbai-Patna flights being among the first to take off.

Both the flights were operated by IndiGo on Monday morning. While the Delhi-Pune flight departed at scheduled at 4.45 AM, the Mumbai-Patna flight departed at 6.45 AM.

All scheduled commercial passenger flights have been suspended since March 25 when the government imposed a nationwide lockdown to curb the coronavirus pandemic.

According to Mint's govt sources, there will be 1,095 departures on the day, nearly 60% of flights operating on Monday are full. Here are all the latest updates about flights' resumption: Delhi's first flight from IGI airport The first flight from

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