Next steps for aviation

Opening international traffic will improve prospects

The Union Minister for Civil Aviation, Jyotiraditya Scindia, tweeted on Tuesday that pandemic-related controls on international flights to and from India will cease from March 27. This is long-delayed, and it is welcome that the government has finally moved on it. The “air bubble” arrangements, which were initially supposed to limit travel to India from areas with controlled cases or flights with humanitarian requirements, had for months ceased to be relevant. All they were doing was preventing passengers to and from India from changing flights at major aviation hubs, thereby driving up the price of tickets. Two years into the