Domestic passenger flights will restart on May 25, 2020. Bookings for these flights are now open. Here is how to book these tickets and how much would they cost.
How to book flight tickets from 25 May?
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Resumption of flights in India: 1/3rd the schedule will operate, Fares will be capped & the passenger experience sanitized for now.
The new SOP for air travel has been notified, which will allow for travel by planes across India on May 25, 2020, and onwards. Here is how much things have changed for the next time you will get on board an aircraft.
Vistara changes service protocols in preparation for service resumption after CoVid19 Lockdown
Vistara has notified new service guidelines for whenever they will be able to take flight again. No reading materials, truncated meal service and less interaction with the crew are some of these new (temporary) guidelines.
Vistara parts way with OptionTown for selling upgrades, lounge access and other ancillaries
Air Vistara and OptionTown have been together offering ancillary services on the airline for a few years now. However, Vistara has now discontinued the contract and OptionTown won’t be an option any longer.
Club Vistara pauses issuing ticket vouchers to co-brand card holders
Vistara has paused the issuance of free tickets to its co-brand cardholders due to the CoronaVirus pandemic.
Club Vistara Update: validity of Points and Vouchers extended; tricky one on Status assessment!
A new Club Vistara Update has been rolled out to members, which accounts for the CoronaVirus related grounding. The airline will reinstate expired points and vouchers for four months, and also give SOME leeway on status, but not much.
Watch: A no-holds-barred conversation with three CXOs from Indian aviation
Aditya Ghosh, Sanjiv Kapoor and Rahul Taneja, on one panel. For a fun conversation which covered some of their challenges at their airlines and how things are working out for them after their aviation stints.
Report Card: Air India & AirAsia India are the only airlines to have stopped flight bookings for good!
In spite of strict instructions from the government that no airline should accept bookings till further notice, airlines operating in India continue to accept bookings for the days ahead. Here is a list of the airlines complying with the rules and the ones which are not (which is most of them)
All airlines operating in/to India directed to stop accepting reservations for flights from May 4, 2020
All the airlines operating inside India, as well as operating flights to India, have been told to stop the sale of flights to/from/within India till further notice, to make sure that the airlines won’t be able to take new reservations for the time being.
Indian airlines are getting away with a LOT in the times of the Virus
The time to EFFECTIVELY regulate the airlines is now, but unfortunately, they are getting a free hand at doing a lot of things which they should not be doing at the moment. Consumer protection is not how it should have been during the times of CoVid-19.
Why all the Credit Shell schemes being offered by airlines are a BAD deal and need regulation.
Airlines have been very kind to us offering a “credit shell” while they should have kindly returned our cash when they ended up in the CoVid-19 Soup. But these credit shells are flawed and have many issues, so take a look at these issues before you accept them.
