Domestic flights resume from Ahmedabad, Surat airports

After a gap of two months, domestic flight operations resumed from Ahmedab and Surat airports in Gujarat from Monday with new rms for passengers in view of coronavirus outbreak, officials said.

Flight operations were suspended in country in late March due to coronavirus outbreak and subsequent nationwide lockdown imposed to stem its spre. Surat airport handled four flights on Monday, said its director Aman Saini. "Two flights arrived here from Delhi and Hyderab and departed for same destinations. Three flights were cancelled by a private operator on Monday," she said.

During day, 40 flights were scheduled to arrive and an equal number slated to depart from Ahmedab airport said a senior official. However, exact number of flights handled by Ahmedab airport was t available till evening. rmally, Ahmedab airport handles around 200 domestic flights every day. se flights connect Ahmedab with major Indian cities like New Delhi, Kolkata, Varanasi and Bengaluru.

government h anunced suspension of passenger flights following imposition of a nationwide lockdown on March 25. Last week, civil aviation ministry h allowed resumption of domestic scheduled commercial passenger flights in a calibrated manner from May 25, subject to passengers following social distancing and or rms in view of coronavirus outbreak.

(Representative Im)