Arun Dhanta

India registers record 10,000 Covid cases in a day

June 13, 2020

India has registered a record of 10,956 new Covid-19 cases and 396 deaths for the first time in a single day since the outbreak of pandemic, as per the Union Health Ministry data till Friday 8 am. This takes the total count of corona-positive cases to 2,97,535 and death toll...

Air travel suffers a glitch due to frequent changes in state quarantine rules

June 12, 2020

After two weeks of the commencement of domestic flight operations in India, a huge decline has been witnessed in the air travel, thanks to frequent changes being made by different states in their quarantine rules in this period. Different quarantine rules in various states for incoming passengers has led to...

Corona-hit global aviation industry stares at $84.3b loss in 2020

June 11, 2020

As the world reels under the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, a report of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) has estimated a loss of $84.3 billion in 2020 for the aviation industry worldwide. Alexandre de Juniac, IATA’s Director General, said: “2020 will go down as the worst year in...

Nizamuddin Dargah to remain shut till 30 June fearing Markaz-like controversy

June 10, 2020

Religious places in Delhi opened on Monday, as per the guidelines of the government, but Hazrat Nizamuddin Dargah remained shut till 30 June, fearing a Tablighi Jamaat-like controversy. The dargah committee will meet soon to discuss the opening of the shrine in July. “As per the government guidelines, we are...

Air India starts booking for 75 flights to US, Canada under Vande Bharat Mission

June 6, 2020

As India eases lockdown after almost two-and-half-month, Air India has begun ticket bookings under the phase-3 of Mission Vande Bharat for 75 special repatriation flights from Friday afternoon onwards for the destinations like Chicago, Washington, San Francisco, Newark, Vancouver and Toronto. The flight will be operating between 9 June and...

Keep middle seat empty or provide ‘wrap-around gowns’: DGCA to airlines

June 2, 2020

The Director General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on Monday told the airlines either to keep the middle seat vacant in flights or provide a “wraparound gown” to the passengers if they are allotted the middle seats due to higher load. However, it has allowed members of the same family to...

All cabs entering Delhi airport to be sanitised

June 2, 2020

The Delhi airport has set up a dedicated area at the entry point of its parking zone in Terminal 3 to ensure cabs coming there to pick up passengers are thoroughly sanitised. All the taxi operators registered with the airport like Ola, Uber, Mega and Meru have to undergo this...

DGCA okays drone trials for essential goods delivery

May 30, 2020

The Director General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has allowed low-budget carrier SpiceJet to conduct drone trials for faster delivery of essential goods like medical, pharma, e-commerce supplies, among others in remote areas of the country. Ajay Singh, Chairman & Managing Director, SpiceJet, said, “Testing of drone technology for last mile...

22 flight passengers test corona-positive in 3 days, 19 in last 24 hours

May 29, 2020

With domestic flights resuming from 25May, the aviation industry has its hands full with a total of 22 passengers testing Covid-positive in just 3 days. Nineteen of the 22 have been reported in the past 24 hours. On Thursday six passengers, who were on Trujet flight from Chennai to Salem,...

Mission Vande Bharat: 33,000 evacuated so far, 49,000 more to be brought back by mid-June

May 28, 2020

The Modi government has decided to expand the second phase of “Mission Vande Bharat” to bring back thousands of Indians stranded abroad due to the coronavirus pandemic. So far, the mission has successfully evacuated more than 33,000 people via 177 flights, and aims to bring back around 49,000 people from...

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