Indigo Reduces, GoAir Suspends Flights on Sunday As PM Modi Announces Janta Curfew

GoAir, the funds airline from India has introduced to voluntarily droop all flights on Sunday when Janta curfew shall be in power. Indigo, India’s largest flight provider, alternatively has introduced to function solely 60 p.c of its fleet on Sunday.

Pitching for “social distancing”, Modi on Thursday known as for a ‘Janta curfew’ from 7 am to 9 pm on March 22, saying no citizen, barring these in important providers, ought to get out of their homes, and asserted that it is going to be a litmus check to indicate India’s readiness to tackle the coronavirus problem. This expertise will serve the nation nicely, he added.

“This Sunday, that is on March 22, all citizens must follow this curfew from 7 am until 9 pm. During this curfew, we shall neither leave our homes, nor get onto the streets and refrain from roaming about in our societies or areas. Only those associated with emergency and essential services may leave their homes,” he stated.

GoAir earlier quickly suspended all its worldwide operations from Tuesday because of the outbreak of coronavirus and the ensuing journey restrictions. According to the airline, it’s pressured to quickly droop all its worldwide operations ranging from March 17th till April 15, 2020.

Currently, the airline flies to Dammam, Kuwait, Muscat, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Bangkok, Phuket and Male. “The aviation industry has been one of the most affected as governments have issued far reaching travel advisories, special events have been postponed or called off, customers have curtailed their individual travel plans and businesses have restricted the movement of their employees,” a GoAir Spokesperson stated in a press release.

“With all these countries introducing travel bans, GoAir is forced to temporarily suspend all its international operations starting 17th March 2020 until 15th April 2020.”

Besides, the airline has initiated a brief time period rotational go away with out pay programme that “will not only help the company counter the short term reduction in capacity, but will also ensure that a cross section of our employees stay away from the workplace for a month at a time to ensure business continuity”.

With Inputs from PTI, IANS