New Delhi: Domestic flights in the country resumed its operations from May 25 in a gradual manner. Booking will starts from Thursday, however scheduled International flights, which were stopped on March 22 will stay grounded for now.

Aviation minister Hardeep Singh puri in a tweet on Wednesday said that domestic civil aviation operations will recommence in a calibrated manner from Monday (May 25) standard operating procedures for passenger moments are also being separately issued by the aviation ministry. He also said the ministry is also looking at fare capping by putting upper and lower limits that airlines can charge for different rules to ensure reduced operations do not lead to an abrupt hike in spot fares.

For instance, spice jet briefly opened bookings on Wednesday night on some fares were very high, like one way Delhi-Mumbai at over Rs. 17,000/- and Srinagar-Delhi at over Rs. 14,000/-. Later the airline stopped booking and would now resume it from Thursday. And also to prevent airlines, most of whom are struggling to survive from charging below cost fares due to competition. Middle seats are unlikely to be kept vacant on flights to keep fares affordable and airlines, which are yet to get any real relief from the government, financially viable.