India's private airline companies have restarted taking bookings for both domestic and international travel, their websites showed.
A source told Mint airlines again began taking bookings on Saturday. Spicejet and GoAir are taking bookings with departures from 16 May while Indigo and Vistara are doing so for travel from 1 June.
State-owned Air India is yet to restart bookings for any travel. The move by the companies comes exactly a week after they were rapped by the civil aviation ministry for taking bookings even as restrictions on movement of people, imposed to prevent the spread of covid-19, remained in force.
They were told not do bookings till further instructions. In the first instance, while private airlines had restarted taking