Air passengers planning to fly to Bangladesh, here comes a piece of good for you. The Ministry of Civil Aviation said on Saturday that flights between India and Bangladesh will restart on September 3, 2021, after a long break. According to a statement released by the Ministry, under an air bubble agreement between the two nations, passenger planes can resume operations after four months. It should be remembered that air travel between the two nations was halted when the number of Covid cases surged during the pandemic's second wave earlier this year.
"The air bubble may be resumed w.e.f. 03.09.21 till resumption of scheduled international passenger flights," MoCA letter read.
The Central government before announcing the operation of flights had imposed a number of restrictions for flights with limited passengers and strict health protocols. "Passengers travelling from Bangladesh to India shall be mandatorily subjected to self-paid confirmatory molecular tests on arrival at the Indian airports concerned (port of entry). Therefore instead of a blanket restriction of 140 passengers per aircraft it is proposed that the capacity may be restricted to a specific percentage of the installed seat capacity of the aircraft (say 90 per cent or 95 percent)," MoCA Said.
"This Ministry has examined the proposal in consultation with the health authorities of India and would like to propose resumption of operations under the Air Bubble with 7 frequencies per week (for carriers of either country)," the Indian aviation ministry said.
Flights between India and Bangladesh to resume from September 3 under air bubble agreement after four months, as per Ministry of Civil Aviation
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