On the back of increasing Covid-19 circumstances resulting in air passenger quantity decline, the Ministry of Civil Aviation has decreased the capacity of domestic flights. It was seen that more than the last 3 months, the quantity of folks travelling in flights had been comparatively lesser than the travellers taking flights earlier. Considering this situation, the aviation ministry decided to lower the capacity of airlines operating on domestic routes in India. The capacity for the domestic flights will be half of the pre-Covid levels. As of now, the domestic flights have been operating at 80 per cent capacity.
Ever considering that the flight operations resumed last year on May 25 just after two months of lockdown, this is the initial time that the authorities have taken action in reduction of capacity additional, a report by The IE noted. As the new guidelines kick in from June 1, quite a few folks will have to face cancellations or rescheduling for the flights that will operate for the duration of summers.
For travellers who have currently booked their flights on or just after June 1, the airlines will make sure their travel arrangements. Their seats will either be booked for an option flight or they will acquire a adjust in schedule (dates). The airlines can provide a refund also. Right now, the adjust in flight or schedule is becoming provided by the airlines devoid of any further expense.
Apart from this, the government has also elevated the reduced limit of the flight fares. This implies that the reduced limit of flights to charge a charge for a distinct distance has been elevated. For flights travelling a distance that can be covered below 40 minutes the reduced limit has been elevated from Rs 2,300 to Rs 2,600. Similarly, duration involving 40 minutes and 60 minutes will see the minimum expense of Rs 3,300 from the existing Rs 2,900. Just like this, reduced limit of flight charges has been elevated distance smart with the maximum reduced limit far at Rs 8,700 for flights obtaining duration of 180 to 210 minutes.
The adjustments have been place in location based on the adjustments in the domestic aviation industry, the report noted. Meanwhile, on May 25, around 39,000 passengers travelled in India by way of domestic flights and this has drastically decreased from 3.13 lakh domestic air passengers travelling in India on February 28 this year.