While the airport says its ready for international flights, the govt has extended the ban on restart of international flights till July 15, 2020. A senior govt official said that they would like to restart international flights but the two key airports in the country still have restrictions in place and the international operations may have to wait.
“We would want to restart flights but Delhi and Mumbai, our two key airports that receive international traffic, have restrictions in place in terms of quarantine and rising number of cases. On top of it, there are restrictions at many international airports too,” said a senior govt official, who did not want to be identified. Delhi airport also said that it received flights from 28 new destinations from around the world, which were not directly connected with Delhi airport, as the world and India conducted evacuation and repatriation both into and out of India.
“These destinations, including several long haul countries, are Accra in Ghana; Auckland, Christchurch and Wellington in New Zealand; Brisbane in Australia; Cairo and Marsa Alam in Egypt; Jakarta and Denpasar-Bali in Indonesia; Zhengzhou in China; Shymkent, Atyrau and Karaganda/Sary-Arka in Kazakhstan; Domodedovo in Russia, Dublin in Ireland, Ankara/Esenboga in Turkey,” the airport said. It added that many of these new destinations, with high tourism potential, may attract airlines to add to their scheduled service routes.
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