Flying out of Delhi to be costlier from Feb; here s why
The Airports Economic Regulatory Authority (AERA) has given the go-ahead to Delhi Internation Airport Limited (DIAL) to impose Rs 65.98 plus tax on departing passengers from February 1, 2021, to March 31, 2021
BusinessToday.In | January 2, 2021 | Updated 15:03 IST
Indira Gandhi International Airport
Passengers will have to pay more for flying out of Delhi for the next couple of months. The Airports Economic Regulatory Authority (AERA) has given the go-ahead to Delhi Internation Airport Limited (DIAL) to impose Rs 65.98 plus tax on departing passengers from February 1, 2021, to March 31, 2021. This additional amount is being collected in lieu of fuel throughput charge which has been levied on airlines till January 15, 2020.
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New Delhi, January 1
The government on Friday announced that it has decided to resume partial passenger flight services between India and the UK from January 8 onwards.
Announcing this, Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Friday said, “It has been decided that flights between India and UK will resume from January 8, 2021. Operations till 23 Jan will be restricted to 15 flights per week each for carriers of the two countries to and from Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru and Hyderabad only.”
The Civil Aviation Ministry had last week suspended all flights between that country and India from December 23 to December 31 over the mutated variant of the virus. The suspension was further extended till January 7 to prevent the spread of a new strain of the virus, considered to be much more infectious.
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It has been decided that flights between India & UK will resume from 8 Jan 2021.
Operations till 23 Jan will be restricted to 15 flights per week each for carriers of the two countries to & from Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru & Hyderabad only. @DGCAIndia will issue the details shortly
India on December 22, suspended all flights to and from the United Kingdom till December 31 in the wake of the new mutant strain of novel coronavirus. However, the Centre on Wednesday extended the temporary ban on flights to and from the UK till January 7, 2021.
On Friday, India reported four more cases of the new coronavirus strain, taking the total number of cases to 29. Of the 29 cases of the mutant virus, 10 were registered by National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro-Sciences Hospital (NIMHANS) Bengaluru, eight by Delhi-based National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) and five by National Institute of Virology (NIV) Pune.