The Civil Aviation Ministry on Thursday stated that domestic airlines will deploy up to 80 percent of their pre-Covid flight capacity from an earlier 70 percent.
“@MoCA_GoIa is now allowing domestic carriers to increase their operations from existing 70 percent to 80 percent of pre-Covid approved capacity.” Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri tweeted earlier.
“Domestic operations recommenced with 30K passengers on 25 May & have now touched a high of 2.52 lakhs on 30 Nov 2020,” he added.
In November, the Centre had permitted domestic airlines to increase their operations to 70 percent of the pre-COVID-19 levels from the existing 60 percent. The decision was taken in wake of a surge in passenger traffic.
It may be recalled that domestic passenger flights were resumed from May 25, after a halt of two months due to the nationwide lockdown. However, they were not allowed to operate at more than 33 percent of their pre-COVID capacity.
A month later, this cap was…