The Centre has decided to stop all domestic flights from midnight on Tuesday till March 31 after chief minister Mamata Banerjee advocated such a step to check the spread of the coronavirus.
“The operations of domestic schedule commercial airlines shall cease operations effective from the midnight, that is, 23.59 hours IST on March 24,” the civil aviation ministry said in a statement. The ban will be in place till 11.59pm on March 31.
The ban will not extend to cargo flights in order to ensure the rapid movement of food, civil supplies and medicines across the country.
