After around two years, India has lifted restrictions on air traffic caused by the pandemic.

Since yesterday there have been more than 3.000 direct flights a week, for example from the Gulf States and Singapore, as the ORF reports. During the past two years, only passenger planes from certain countries have been allowed to fly direct to India under certain conditions. India also had bilateral agreements with these countries. The Lufthansa Group will soon be offering more flights to India, a country with a population of 1,3 billion. There are currently 22 Lufthansa and Swiss connections per week between Frankfurt, Munich and Zurich on the one hand and Delhi, Mumbai and Bengaluru on the other.

By July, the number is expected to rise to 43 flights a week to and from India – almost as many as before the pandemic. According to the information, the route between Frankfurt and Chennai should also be on the flight plan from the end of April. According to the Indian authorities, the decision to lift the restrictions was made because of the falling number of CoV cases.