Domestic, intl flights suspended till May 3 as Covid-19 lockdown continues

India will keep domestic and international flights suspended till May 3 in alignment with a national lockdown being extended, said the country's aviation ministy on Tuesday.  

Domestic and international commercial passenger flights were earlier suspended from March 25 to April 14. "All domestic and international scheduled airline operations shall remain suspended till 11.59 pm of 3rd May 2020," the ministry tweeted.

Indian aviation had a negative growth of 3-5 per cent in the last fiscal—hurting before the coronavirus pandemic and now hurting because of the disease, said rating agency Icra on Thursday. The Icra report pointed that traffic slowed even