Such regulations will also enable group members to reconnect with each other and stimulate sectors such as travel and tourism. The Baltic countries, Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia, were the first to create an air bubble that allowed free travel between themselves while limiting external people. Today, in a message on social media, Indian Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said that flights between India and Germany will resume as part of an agreement on air bubbles. With some European countries reporting a second wave of infection, air bubbles allowing citizens to travel freely between certain nations under a reciprocal agreement appear to be the « new normal », even if demand for international air travel remains low. The EU`s civil aviation minister, Hardeep Singh Puri, said India was negotiating air bubble agreements with 13 other countries. EU Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri commented on the suspension of the air bubble between India and Germany with talks between the two countries. « It`s not about hiring foreign airlines or not. We are all for the foreign airlines that work here. Don`t make a mistake. But I think it`s time for the message to be clear, that it will not come at the expense of Indian airlines. In the context of regulated agreements (air bubbles), we do not insist on total parity.
Even close to parity it will be, » the minister said. Read also: International flights: India-Germany Flights from October 26 after a short suspension of the air bubble Take off Worldwide, India has carried an air bubble with 18 countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom and the United Arab Emirates – the focus is on countries with huge Indian communities or diaspora. Because of the different figures, the air bubble of India and Germany – an agreement between two countries that allowed their airlines to operate both routes – was suspended. All flights between the two countries have been cancelled until 20 October. Due to the short suspension of the air bubble, several flights were cancelled. Those with Air India tickets between October 20 and October 26 have been asked to contact the airline and reschedule them after October 26. After a brief dispute over who is flying other planes in the midst of the Covid 19 pandemic, which is causing a brief suspension of the air bubble between India and Germany, Air India tweeted on Friday that it would launch its flights in Germany from October 26. It shows that the new agreement between the two countries has been extended until 28 March 2021. In a separate article, Puri also revealed today that India had put in place an air bubble agreement with Bangladesh allowing airlines from both sides to fly up to 28 weekly flights between the two countries. At 18, India needs the number of air bubble agreements that India has now reached.
A traffic bubble is a temporary stimulus for commercial passenger transport in the midst of the COVID 19 pandemic. International air traffic has been severely disrupted by the COVID 19 crisis and, with the resumption of travel, air bubbles in the transport sector are a solution. These transport arrangements are reciprocal. Planned international flights have been suspended in India since 23 March due to the coronavirus pandemic. However, since May, international passenger flights have been conducted as part of the « Vande Bharat Mission » in India and bilateral air bubble agreements have been concluded between India and other countries since July.