Domestic flight services resume; passengers complain of flight cancellation without notice

With domestic passenger flight services resuming operations after nearly two months of lockdown imposed to contain the spread of coronavirus, several passengers waiting for their flights in Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad and other airports complained that their flights were cancelled without prior notice.

Hyderabad (Telangana): Even as domestic passenger flight services resumed operations after nearly two months of lockdown imposed to contain the spread of coronavirus, many passengers complained of flights being cancelled without prior notice.

Passengers of an Air India Bengaluru-Hyderabad flight said their flight was cancelled, without prior notice from the airline.

"Only when our boarding passes were scanned at the airport entry we were told that boarding has been cancelled. We don't know what to do now,” said one of the passengers.

Amid much confusion over the stand of state governments in resuming flight services, several passengers started to queue up outside airports across the country from the previous night to catch early morning flights back home.

Civil Aviation minister Hardeep Singh Puri had said in a tweet on Monday morning, “Today, we restart domestic flights. India's civil aviation is always at the forefront.”

However, several passengers waiting for their flights in Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad and other airports complained that their flights were cancelled without prior notice.