NEW DELHI: India is unlikely to allow international flights to take off from its land before July as new cases of covid-19 continue to emerge both within and outside the country, two people with direct knowledge of the matter told Mint.
However, Indian airlines continue to take domestic bookings for travel after 3 May, and would discontinue this only after a formal notification from the ministry of civil aviation, which is yet to come. “Worldover, and definitely in India too, it has been seen that unrestricted movement of people from overseas was among the key carriers and reasons behind the spread of the virus.