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SME Times News Bureau | 12 May, 2020
Speculations were rife on Monday regarding the opening up of domestic passenger flight operations in the coming few days.
According
to industry insiders, these speculations got triggered after a team of
senior bureaucrats from the Civil Aviation Ministry visited the Delhi
airport on Sunday.
The visit was to inspect the preparations made by the airport for the eventual restart of passenger operations.
In fact, the senior leadership of the airport's management accompanied the Ministry team at the Terminal 3.
Lately,
various machines to sanitise and smoothly manage passenger entry and
exit from the terminal building have been installed at the airport.
The
airport has made several technology-based unique facilities operational
such as UV (ultraviolet) based tunnels to disinfect check point trays
and baggage, mobile UV tower to disinfect surfaces in the terminal area
and hand-held UV devices.
In addition, passenger trolley
disinfection systems and walk in shoe sanitiser mats are also unique
facilities for passenger safety.
Besides, the limited re-start
of railway services from Tuesday has also given life to the idea that
immediate approval for the civil aviation operations will be given.
"We
expect to get a notification soon on the restart of services from the
government and the bookings thereafter," a senior executive with a
travel products company told IANS.
However, there was no official comment on the same.
Even
the airline industry contends that it will take time for the operations
to restart, as booking inventories are required to be loaded on to
online platforms, and the necessary airworthiness certificates obtained
for the g rounded aircraft.
"There are many areas that need to
be addressed like route planning. We have no idea on how many services
will be allowed in phases and from where to where these services will be
allowed to operate," an airline industry insider told IANS.
At
present, all domestic and international passenger services are banned
except for cargo or flights for which special clearances have been taken
from the regulator.
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