Flight services suspended till lockdown ends on May 3
NEW DELHI : In view of the extension of the nationwide lockdown, the government has decided to suspend all passenger flight services till May 3. “All domestic and international scheduled Airlines operations shall remain suspended till 11.59 pm of 3rd May 2020,” the ministry of civil aviation said in a statement.
Similarly, the Indian Railways has also announced that all train services, barring special parcel trains and freight trains, will remain suspended till the lockdown ends of May 3.
Earlier, the suspension of both train and flight services were till May 14 when the 21-day lockdown to combat the spread of coronavirus was to end but Prime Minister Narendra Modi today extended the lockdown till May 3.
