Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri announced on Saturday the
resumption of flights from India to the UK from January 6, while services
from the UK to India would resume on January 8, PTI reported.

“Resumption of flights between India & UK: India to the UK from 6 Jan 2021. UK to India from 8 Jan 2021. 30 flights will operate every
week. 15 each by Indian & UK carriers,” Puri said on Twitter.

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Puri tweeted out a three-page long list of Standard
Operating Procedures (SOP) from the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare to be
followed with the process going on, listing out the actions to be undertaken at
international airports.

“The resumption of flight services is to be done in a
calibrated manner by initially allowing flight movement to/from UK with four
international airports i.e. Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Chennai only”,
the document from MoHFW read.

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The document further noted that the SOPs shall be valid till
January 30, 2021 (23:59 IST) or further orders, whichever is earlier, while Puri
had earlier announced that the arrangement would continue till January 23.

India had earlier banned all flights between itself and the
British isle from December 23 to January 7 in view of the new coronavirus variant
having emerged in the UK.