New Delhi: German airliner Lufthansa on Tuesday said it would operate 160 flights between India and Germany in September, more than four times as many that it did in August.
"In September, 10 weekly flights are scheduled for each of these city pairings: Delhi-Frankfurt, Delhi-Munich, Mumbai-Frankfurt, Bangalore-Frankfurt," Lufthansa said in a statement.
George Ettiyil, Lufthansa's Senior Sales Director for South Asia, said, "This clearly reflects the ongoing high demand for international air travel to and from India, one of the world's most important aviation markets."
As per the airline's statement, Lufthansa Group has also launched a free-of-charge rebooking policy for its customers regardless of the terms and conditions of their purchase tickets.
Europe's largest airline has claimed that all cabin air is completely renewed approximately every three minutes, a much higher ventilation rate than is usual for other applications and means of transport.
Earlier, the airline had said that from September 1, the passengers flying from Lufthansa with a negative Covid-19 report from a test done within 48 hours of undertaking the journey and those with medical certificate can seek exemption from the mandatory rule of wearing masks on flights.
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India had suspended all scheduled domestic and international passenger flights on March 23 due to the coronavirus pandemic.
However, to allow gradual movement of passenger traffic, India has signed bilateral air travel arrangements or 'air bubbles' with the US, the UK, the UAE, Germany, France, Qatar and Maldives while negotiations are going on with 13 more countries.
