Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Thursday, 21 May announced new guidelines for domestic air travel that will resume from 25 May and said that the fares of tickets will be in a specific range as decided by the ministry.
Earlier, the Airports Authority of India too issued a standard operating procedure (SOP) for airports and passengers for recommencement of domestic flights.
With a spike of 5,609 COVID-19 cases and 132 deaths in the last 24 hours, total number of cases in the country on Thursday are at 1,12,359, including 63,624 active cases and 3,435 deaths, according to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
- Within two hours of online booking opening, 1,49 lakh tickets booked on Thursday, for the first set of 73 special passenger trains that will be run from 1 June
- United States coronavirus deaths increased by 1,561 in 24 hours,” reports AFP news agency quoting the Johns Hopkins University tracker
- Global coronavirus cases surpassed 5 million on Wednesday, with Latin America overtaking the United States and Europe in the past week to report the largest portion of new daily cases worldwide
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