The Centre has raised the cap on domestic flights by 10 percentage points to 80 per cent of pre-coronavirus level as the airlines look to do better business during Christmas and New Year.
“Domestic operations re-commenced with 30,000 passengers on May 25 and have now touched a high of 2.52 lakh on November 30, 2020. Ministry of Civil Aviation is now allowing domestic carriers to increase their operations from the existing 70 per cent to 80 per cent of pre-Covid approved capacity,” civil aviation minister Hardeep Singh Puri said in a tweet.
The government had resumed scheduled domestic passenger services from May 25 after a gap of two months because of the coronavirus lockdown.