India’s civil aviation regulator DGCA has extended the ban on international commercial flights scheduled on 09 December 2021 till 31 January. Earlier, India had announced plans to resume scheduled commercial international passenger services from December 15 with certain conditions.
The Central Directorate General of Aviation (DGCA) on December 01 said that it is ‘closely monitoring’ the situation emerging out of the Omicron form of COVID-19 and is in final consultation with stakeholders on resumption of near-normal international flight operations. Decision will be taken.
The DGCA said that India will suspend its scheduled international passenger flights till January 31 next year. The DGCA had on December 1 decided not to resume international passenger flights from December 15 amid growing concerns over the Omicron variant of the coronavirus. A week before this, it had announced that it was going to resume scheduled international flights.
The Central Government made a contactless self-declaration mandatory on the Air Suvidha portal by international air travelers arriving in India on 07 December 2021. According to the Ministry of Civil Aviation, all international passengers arriving in India are required to declare their current health status before boarding on the Air Suvidha portal along with necessary documents.
