India to resume limited overseas flights to US today, other nations soon

India has finalised talks with the US, France, and is in final stages of discussion with Germany to resume limited international flights under ‘bilateral air bubbles’, Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said at a press conference on Thursday.

Indian private carriers will also be given an opportunity to fly on such long-haul routes, provided they operate wide-body aircraft for such flights, the minister said.

Bilateral air bubbles is a mechanism to resume international flights between India and other countries with certain pre-conditions, which regulate movement in view of the current Covid-19 pandemic, Civil Aviation Secretary Pradeep Singh Kharola, present at the