Some airlines to operate flights during Janata curfew

The domestic airline sector will operate some flights this Sunday during the Janata curfew between 7 am and 9 pm, as announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his address to the nation on Thursday. Modi had requested everyone, except those required for essential services, to stay indoors during the curfew hours.

Sources in Air India, SpiceJet, IndiGo and Vistara confirmed that some flights will operate during the curfew.

Sources in Vistara said some flights may be reschedued or cancelled. Similarly, SpiceJet sources said no directions had yet been received to stop the flights. “Some flights will operate between 7 am and 9 pm this Sunday,” sources in Air India said. When the government was contacted to check if domestic flights would operate during the curfew, sources said “let us see”.