Indian domestic flights increase to 56% of pre-coronavirus levels

Indian domestic flights increase to 56% of pre-coronavirus levels

India has increased the number of domestic flights in the country to 56 percent of pre-Covid levels.

The winter schedule for domestic aviation, which began on Sunday and will run until March 21 next year, allows for a total of 12,983 flights from 95 airports, the aviation regulator said, according to a report by UAE news agency WAM.

Air India Express has scheduled over 300 'bubble' flights for September to the Middle East, compared to 118 flights last month

Minister for Civil Aviation, Hardeep Singh Puri said domestic flights connecting bigger cities to smaller towns was a pre-requisite to the resumption of overseas flights.

When air travel resumed in India on May 25 after a two-month gap, caused by a total lockdown, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) permitted airlines to operate 33