{"id":16921,"date":"2022-01-20T13:34:01","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T08:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/?p=16921"},"modified":"2022-01-20T13:34:04","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T08:04:04","slug":"dgca-suspends-international-flights-till-feb-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/20\/dgca-suspends-international-flights-till-feb-28\/","title":{"rendered":"DGCA suspends international flights till Feb 28"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">The coronavirus-induced<strong> suspension of scheduled international passenger flights <\/strong>has been extended till 28 February, aviation regulator <a href=\"http:\/\/dgca.in\">DGCA<\/a> said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a circular on Wednesday, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) stated: &#8220;<em>The competent authority has decided to extend the suspension of scheduled international commercial passenger services to\/from India till <strong>2359 hrs<\/strong> IST of February 28, 2022<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/xflight-1577992397.jpg.pagespeed.ic_.fjoVPolHsP.jpg\" alt=\"The coronavirus-induced suspension of scheduled international passenger flights has been extended till 28 February by DGCA\" class=\"wp-image-16924\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/xflight-1577992397.jpg.pagespeed.ic_.fjoVPolHsP.jpg 400w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/xflight-1577992397.jpg.pagespeed.ic_.fjoVPolHsP-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse has-text-align-center\">Scheduled international passenger services have been suspended in India since March 23, 2020, due to the coronavirus pandemic.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p> But special international flights have been operating under the Vande Bharat Mission since May 2020 and under bilateral <strong>&#8220;air bubble&#8221; arrangements with selected countries<\/strong> since July 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>India has formed air bubble pacts with around 24 countries including <em>the US, the UK, the UAE, Kenya, Bhutan and France.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Under an air bubble pact between two countries,<strong> special international flights can be operated<\/strong> by their airlines between their territories .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The DGCA circular also said that the suspension <em>does not affect the operation of international all-cargo operations<\/em> and flights specifically approved by it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stay Tuned with us!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The coronavirus-induced suspension of scheduled international passenger flights has been extended till 28 February by DGCA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16924,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6761],"tags":[1527,5130,620,3179],"class_list":{"0":"post-16921","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-air-bubble-pact","9":"tag-cargo-operation","10":"tag-dgca","11":"tag-international-passengers"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16921"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16928,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16921\/revisions\/16928"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}