New Delhi: With the fear of coronavirus forcing people to cancel their travel plans, aviation minister H S Puri on Friday said he will make “suitable recommendations to private airlines for (waiving) rescheduling charges”. Air India, he said, has already done the same and now he will see how to ensure relief for flyers from private airlines also.
“Travel is still happening, though essential. Holidayers may be cancelling plans but travellers for work are rescheduling dates. We are working on cancellation fee issue,” Puri said.
Airlines, both AI and some private Indian carriers, have been waiving cancellation and rescheduling charges to places in the grip of coronavirus like southeast Asia and the far East.
Puri said Indian airports are fully geared up to screen the 70,000 international arrivals they receive on a daily basis across 30 airports. India has started screening passengers flying in from all countries since Thursday noon.
“Between January 18 and March 5, when we were screening passengers from 12 countries (10 initially with Italy and Iran added later), almost 6.5 lakh passengers, who came in on 6,551 flights, were screened using thermal scanners. Of these, 611 were referred for further testing and swab tests were done on 84,” Puri said.
07/03/20 Times of India
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“Travel is still happening, though essential. Holidayers may be cancelling plans but travellers for work are rescheduling dates. We are working on cancellation fee issue,” Puri said.
Airlines, both AI and some private Indian carriers, have been waiving cancellation and rescheduling charges to places in the grip of coronavirus like southeast Asia and the far East.
Puri said Indian airports are fully geared up to screen the 70,000 international arrivals they receive on a daily basis across 30 airports. India has started screening passengers flying in from all countries since Thursday noon.
“Between January 18 and March 5, when we were screening passengers from 12 countries (10 initially with Italy and Iran added later), almost 6.5 lakh passengers, who came in on 6,551 flights, were screened using thermal scanners. Of these, 611 were referred for further testing and swab tests were done on 84,” Puri said.
07/03/20 Times of India
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