Bengaluru/Mumbai: On early Monday morning, at 12.40 am, the first domestic flight is scheduled to take off from Bengaluru to New Delhi, two months after the lockdown due to covid-19 forced the grounding of air travel in India.
India’s largest airline operator Indigo’s 6E2625 is scheduled to take off from Kempegowda International Airport in Bengaluru, as the first of 1095 departures in the country that is part of the gradual lifting of lockdown restrictions and allowing more inter-state movement of people that had been stopped in order to contain the spread of the coronavirus.
An Indigo spokesperson confirmed that 12.40am is the first flight. But there is some confusion on the flight timing and schedule with various states backing out.