Flights require to skies after 2 months, but face air pockets in some states

NEW DELHI: The Centre’s strategy to reboot domestic flights from Monday after a gap of 2 months owing to the Covid-induced lockdown ran into last-minute turbulence caused by opposition from states like Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Bengal and Andhra Pradesh.

After much persuasion, Mumbai airport agreed to allow only 50 flights on the first day – less than a fourth of what India’s second-busiest airport was to see. Air India has decided to release wide-body airplane on the Delhi-Mumbai route to accommodate as numerous guests as possible.

West Bengal stated a decreased variety of flights would be allowed to operate from Kolkata and Bagdogra from May 28 as the state was suffering the after-effects of the terrible Cyclone Amphan. Vijaywada and Visakhapatnam will permit scheduled flights from May26 Chennai