Strict hygiene rules will make flying safer but arbitrary ticket price bands could make it hard for the industry to recover from the corona blow.
Allow airlines strategic flexibility Airline stocks soared on Thursday after the government declared our skies open for domestic flights again, starting Monday, even as a collective sigh of relief was heaved by people stranded in cities away from home and others with urgent business to conduct in person elsewhere.
For now, only about a third of India’s 7,800-odd scheduled flights are expected to resume, prompted by the need to keep airports free of crowds.
As aircraft immobilized by coronavirus for two months prepare to roll onto runways, a long list of dos and don’ts has also been issued.