A limited number of flights, about 25, will be allowed to land and take off from Mumbai on Monday when flying resumes after two months.
This follows hectic talks among various stakeholders after Uddhav Thackeray, Chief Minister, Maharashtra, took to Twitter on Sunday afternoon to announce that he had spoken to Hardeep Puri, Minister of State for Civil Aviation, regarding the schedule of domestic flights in Maharashtra.
He said till Mumbai International Airport Ltd (MIAL) plans and fine-tunes operations, minimum possible domestic flights — purely on emergency basis such as for transfer of international passengers, for medical emergencies, transfer of students and cases on compassionate grounds — must be initiated from Maharashtra from May 25. Incidentally, Delhi-Mumbai is one of the busiest air routes in the world.
