IndiGo, GoAir to cancel close to 1,000 flights on Sunday

Mumbai: Low fare carriers IndiGoNSE -2.21 % and GoAir will together cancel close to 1,000 domestic flights during the Janta Curfew Sunday, both said without giving any assurance of a refund to affected passengers.

GoAir said it will cancel all its domestic operations, usually constituting 330 flights, on Sunday. The country’s biggest carrier IndiGo separately said it will operate only 60% of its domestic schedule of about 1,400 local flights on Sunday and going forward trim it by 25%. To be sure, both have already clubbed and cancelled some domestic flights in the last few weeks.

GoAir said it was “responding to the clarion call” by Prime Minister Narendra Modi who on Thursday urged citizens to adhere to a self-imposed curfew on Sunday, restricting movements and gatherings to a bare minimum to fight the spread of the Coronavirus.