New Delhi: Air India Airlines on Sunday decided to cancel all the flights to Hong Kong. Air India Sunday tweeted, “Due to restrictions imposed by the Hong Kong authorities and limited demand on the sector, our flights to Hong Kong and back of 19th and 23rd April stand canceled,”
According to the restriction in Hong Kong, “Passengers from India can arrive in Hong Kong only if they have a COVID-19 negative certificate from a test done 48 hours prior to the journey,”
Earlier in January, this year, Hong Kong had announced a two-week ban on incoming flights from eight countries, including India, as the world continues to witness a surge in the Omicron variant of COVID-19.
HKSAR Chief Executive Carrie Lam had “said that the ban will affect passengers from Australia, Britain, Canada, France, India, Pakistan, the Philippines, and the United States, including transferring passengers.”
Lam further said that the decision on the flight suspension was made because of a rapid change in the local COVID-19 situation.
However, Shanghai has set a target to stop the spread of Covid-19 outside of quarantined areas by Wednesday, two people familiar with the matter said, which would allow the city to further ease its lockdown and start returning to normal life as public frustrations grow.
(Vinayak)
