NEW DELHI: IndiGo and Air India — the only two Indian carriers that fly to China — have started curtailing their flights to the country due to the coronavirus outbreak + . While IndiGo will suspend its Delhi-Chengdu and Bengaluru-Hong Kong daily from February 1, it will continue the Kolkata-Guangzhou flights ‘for now’.
Air India will suspend its six times weekly Mumbai-Delhi-Shanghai flight from January 31 to February 14. Air India’s daily Delhi-Hong Kong-Delhi will operate only thrice a week from January 31 to February 14. So instead of 15, this period will see maximum of seven flights on Delhi-Hong Kong by Air India. “Our crew operating the Delhi-Hong Kong flight will come back on return flight to avoid a layover there,” said a senior official.
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Indian carriers operating flights to Southeast Asia have asked pilots and cabin crew to wear N95 masks and take all other precautions.
