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British Airways will resume passenger flying on Indian routes on August 17, 2020, onwards with the first in-bound flights scheduled from London Heathrow on August 16, 2020. This should enable Indians and other citizens to travel to the UK and beyond on British Airways.
Air India Express flight IX1344, a repatriation flight bringing home migrant Indians in the UAE, crash-landed at Calicut airport last night. 17 confirmed casualties at the moment in the accident.
Jet Airways has finally got the title of 6 aircraft which were hypothecated while the airline was to fully pay up for them. Although, in the current circumstances, the future of these aircraft looks bleak.
Air India has made an important policy announcement, deciding to defer all points expiry and freezing their members status until Flying ‘Returns’ at the other end of this pandemic outbreak.
There is much confusion about who can travel out of India and who can travel to India at this moment. I try and work my way through the answers. For one, travel to the USA from India is open.
From August 8, 2020, onwards, you may not have to quarantine on arrival in India. This would be decided on a case to case basis, but made possible if you have a recent CoVid-19 negative test report before starting your flight to India.
IndiGo’s co-branded credit cards, launched earlier this year, are being offered free of cost if you apply via a special promotion on at the moment. Here is how you can get the card free for the first year if you apply now!
If you were thinking of flying into India or heading outside the country over the next few weeks, let’s forget it. India has formally announced that all flights outside the country will not be operative until at least September 1, 2020.
Great News, United has come up with over 50 flights which will bring Indians/ Americans/ Canadians back from India to USA/Canada over the course of August 2020. Flights are all open and here is how to book these flights.
Yesterday evening, SpiceJet declared their annual results for the last financial year. There were many things to note there, but there were some that stood out from the rest.
Boeing today declared that they will be downsizing the number of planes they build every month in anticipation of the CoronaVirus induced slowdown for aviation. This also means they have now confirmed that they will shut the Boeing 747 production soon.
