India may allow scheduled international flights by end of year: Official

India may allow scheduled international flights by the end of the year, secretary, ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA), Rajiv Bansal said on Wednesday.

The move comes amid a continuing fall in the number of Covid-19 cases in the country — currently, daily cases are the lowest since last June — riding vaccinations, and swelling domestic air passenger traffic, now up to almost pre-pandemic levels, according to Bansal. In February 2020, before the pandemic hit India (the country recorded its first local cases in early March), the passenger traffic was 400,000 a day.

“The current daily domestic passengers is from 3.8 to 3.98 lakh passengers,” Bansal added.