Daijiworld Media Network - Mangaluru (SP)

Mangaluru, May 25: The flights from Mangaluru International Airport scheduled to depart for Mumbai and Chennai on Monday May 25 have been cancelled.

The cancellations were made reportedly because of non-availability of enough passengers and technical reasons.

Out of six flights scheduled today, four have been cancelled. Therefore, only two flights will be operated from here today, the first day of resumption of flights after lockdown.

Flights SG353 and 6E5328 to Mumbai have been cancelled, and so also flight 6E7139 to Chennai and flight SG1027 to Bengaluru. All these flights were supposed to depart on Monday morning.

As a result, only two flights will be operated from the airport on Monday, and both to Bengaluru later in the night.

There will not be any flights to Bengaluru during the daytime today. The flight to Bengaluru being operated by IndiGo airlines will depart at 7.35 pm. The other flight by Spicejet will leave for Bengaluru at 9.50 pm.

Monday was the first day of the resumption of domestic flights across the country after two months of lockdown over coronavirus outbreak. Strict guidelines have been issued for travellers with regard to social distancing and use of masks. There is restriction on number of passengers per flight too.