This implies that no industrial flight will be permitted to land or take off from India.
The aviation regulation DGCA on Thursday issued a fresh circular saying that all industrial flight operations to and from India will stay suspended till the additional order. According to news agency ANI, the Director General of Civil Aviation stated that the order will stay in force till December 31st. This implies that no industrial flight will be permitted to land or take off from India. However, there is a caveat in the new DGCA order. Global cargo flights and these with particular approval from the DGCA will be permitted to operate, the circular stated. On a case-precise basis, specially scheduled flights on the international routes might be permitted, the order added. Such flights would have to have a nod from the officials concerned.
The Thursday order is an extension of the DGCA’s October order that had place the ban on the industrial flight operations in India. Since March 23, regular aviation activities stay suspended due to the coronavirus pandemic. So far, the Narendra Modi government has been operating particular flights below the Vande Bharat Mission to bring back these stranded abroad due to lockdowns in other components of the planet. From May on, flights below the Vande Bharat Mission have brought back scores of students, traders and other people. The Vande Bharat flights are becoming operated below precise ‘air bubble’ pacts involving India and other nations. Only chosen nations have such ‘air bubble’ agreements with India.
Due to the stringent Covid-19 restrictions, India has signed particular arrangements with chosen nations such as Kenya, France, the UK and the US for the flight operations. In total, there are 18 nations with which India has signed the ‘air bubble’ pacts. While the international flight operations remained suspended, the domestic sector has witnessed a steady rise in the quantity of fliers. As element of the ‘Unlock’ method, the Modi government had permitted the resumption of domestic flights from May 25. It was following the stringent 2-month lockdown that the domestic flights had resumed operations. Internationally, the aviation sector is the worst-hit due to coronavirus pandemic. While big players have attempted to bring back the fliers with the assurance of security and standard sanitisation, the ground reality is lesser quantity of taking flights. The key cause is the elevated danger of contracting coronavirus in the course of the flights.