new delhi the centre on wednesday allowed airlines to operate more domestic flights by raising the cap on deployed capacity from 45 to 60 of the original summer schedule dgca chief arun kumar said this move will mean airlines can deploy upto about 2000 daily domestic flights we have a detailed and established covidtime protocol for safe air travel right from the time passengers enter a terminal at origin to the time they exit from destination airport air travel remains one of the safest mode of transport in this pandemic passengers are realising that and more people are taking to the skies again accordingly the number of domestic flights airlines can operate daily has been increased to 60 of the original summer schedule that translates to about a maximum of 19002000 daily flights within the country kumar saidthe government took this decision as the number of domestic passengers has been steadily rising in past few weeks importantly three major metros mumbai kolkata and chennai have started lifting restriction on domestic flights more on covid19coronavirus pandemic complete coverageits time to mask up and stay safe join tois maskindia campaignmhas guidelines for home isolationtrust the newspaper for your daily verified newsmumbai has just allowed 100 daily schedule domestic departures and as many arrivals by doubling the previously permitted capacity chennai airport will also be doubling daily domestic flights to 50 from earlier 25 west bengal has from this month allowed flights between kolkata and six cities delhi mumbai pune nagpur chennai and ahmedabad three days a week after stopping them on july 6 according to the aviation ministry september 1 2020 saw over 12 lakh domestic passengers on 1121 flights domestic flights had resumed after a twomonth suspension on may 25 the first day of resumed operations had seen less than 40000 fly on 532 flights in three months since then the number of domestic passengers has tripledpeople are gaining confidence as they take to the skies again they are finding that airport operators and airlines have taken all possible steps to minimise the possibility of getting infected people gaining confidence to fly again and states lifting restriction in the reason why the government has lifted the 45 cap on domestic operations that was to remain till november 24 and allowed 60 capacity deployment with immediate effect said an officialinternational flights for now will continue under the air bubbles india is creating with several countries and on vande bharat mission flights earlier the government had said it will consider resuming schedule international flights when domestic capacity reached 5055 mark as of now no call has been taken on that but we are constantly increasing the list of air bubble countries and vbm operations schedule international flights will begin as soon as they can under the current pandemic circumstances said an official