Flights Likely To Be Allowed In Staggered Manner After Lockdown

The government is planning to allow domestic and international flight operations in India in a staggered manner after lockdown period.

According to the Aviation Ministry officials, airlines are free to take bookings for any date post April 14, 2020.

The 21 day lockdown ends on April 14, if everything goes well.

The Narendra Modi government announced a 21-day lockdown starting from March 25 to control spread of the Covid-19. As a result, all domestic and international commercial passenger flights were also suspended for this time period.

Deeper revenue impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the global air transport industry

The corona virus pandemic has left the airlines in lurch as the revenues have fallen significantly. The aviation sector is one of the worst affected sectors because of Covis-19.
Because of Corona Virus, all the airlines are impacted and have announced various cost cutting measures including pay cuts. While Indigo and Spicejet have announced up to 30% pay cut, Vistara has asked many of its employees to go on leave without pay.
Similar measures of pay cut and leave without pay, were taken by Goair  Air Deccan seems to be hit hard by the lockdown and have announced indefinite suspension of flight operations. The company also asked all the employees to go on sabbatical without pay.

Airlines Open Flight Booking from April 15

In a hope that the pandemic impact will subside soon, the major airlines are taking domestic bookings for dates post April 14. However, Air India is taking bookings for dates post April 30 only.
Air Deccan is not taking any bookings as of now and it is not clear when it would restart operations.

"As the virus is still spreading in India, we are thinking to permit domestic and international flight operations post April 14 in a staggered manner.
Airlines are free to take bookings for any date post April 14," a senior Civil Aviation Ministry official said.

"However, if the lockdown is extended post April 14, airlines will have to cancel the tickets booked for that time period," Aviation Ministry Official.