NEW DELHI: West Bengal will now allow domestic flights from Delhi and Mumbai 3 days a week — Monday, Wednesday and Friday — from January 5 instead of 2 days as decided earlier.
During the second wave in April-May, the state had imposed similar curbs on flights from some states.
However, since only people with a genuine reason to travel do so during Covid surges, restrictions like these only mean higher expense and travel time for passengers. They are forced to travel one stop — say instead of Delhi/Mumbai-Kolkata direct, Delhi/Mumbai-Lucknow-Kolkata — on the restriction days.
The same is happening now.
Try booking a ticket from Delhi or Mumbai to Kolkata on one of the days when direct flights aren’t allowed, and airlines are giving one-stop flights.
