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Karnataka issues guidelines for international arrivals
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Kolkata to get direct flights to Udaipur, Jodhpur, Coimbatore
n view of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Karnataka government has issued a new set of guidelines for international passengers arriving in the state. According to the notification, passengers coming from countries including the UK, South Africa, Brazil, Bangladesh, Botswana, China, Mauritius, New Zealand and Zimbabwe would need to follow additional
measures on arrival in India, including post arrival testing. As per the new guidelines, all passengers planning to travel to Karnataka have to submit a self-declaration form on the online Air Suvidha portal before the scheduled travel. They are also supposed to upload a negative RT-PCR Covid test report on the portal, conducted within 72 hours prior to the journey.
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he city will get direct flights to Udaipur, Jodhpur and Coimbatore and one-stop connections to Leh, Kanpur, Bhavnagar and Jaisalmer from next month with IndiGo and SpiceJet adding several new flights in this sector. The addition of new flights on these sectors will take the number of movements (arrivals and departures) in Kolkata to nearly 390 up from 300 to 350 at present. Currently, the flight count is high on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays when there is no embargo on flight arrivals from Maharashtra, Gujarat and Tamil Nadu. On other days of the week, the count dips sharply.
India keen to increase international flights under travel bubbles: Report
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ndia is looking to increase the number of international flights operating to and from the country in the upcoming weeks, reported MoneyControl. With the country having administered over 100 crore doses, and 85 percent of its eligible population receiving at least one dose of the vaccine, Indian officials are in talks with domestic and international airlines as well as other countries to increase its flight capacity under travel bubbles, senior officials told MoneyControl. India has established several air bubble travel agreements with countries in Europe, Middle East, North America and others. Air bubbles allow international flights to operate between two countries under certain restrictions and stipulations, even when international flights may be restricted in either of the two countries
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Shri Jyotiraditya Scindia virtually flags off first direct flight on Shillong-Dibrugarh route
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hri. Jyotiraditya M. Scindia, Union Minister of Civil Aviation, General Dr. VK Singh (Retd.), MoS, Civil Aviation, along with Shri Rajiv Bansal, Secretary, Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA) virtually flagged off the first direct flight on the Shillong – Dibrugarh route under the Regional Connectivity Scheme – UdeDeshKaAamNaagrik (RCS-UDAN) of the Government of India.ShriJyotiraditya M. Scindia, Union Minister of Civil Aviation said, “In 2014, only 6 airports were operational in North East which has now risen to 15 airports in 2021.
Within a short span of 7 years, we have achieved this ambitious target. I assure you that this is just the beginning; we are further committed to enhancing the interstate and intrastate connectivity of North-East. Apart from promoting flight connectivity, our focus is on developing the infrastructure capabilities along with helicopter services for the last mile delivery. To ensure that, we recently launched the Helicopter policy to further promote Heli Services in North-East. We want to bring the travellers from all over the country to North-East.”
