GoAir has announced that it will suspend all its flights until April 14, 2020.
A statement by GoAir said, “GoAir is fully supportive of the initiatives announced by our Honorable Prime Minister. In fact, GoAir was the only airline to respond to Prime Minister’s clarion call to observe Janata Curfew and we suspended all our flights on Sunday 22nd March 2020.GoAir fully respects the decisive steps being taken by our Prime Minister followed by various state and local governments to arrest the spread of COVID-19. Although these steps will stop air travel until 14th April 2020 and impact the very purpose of GoAir’s existence, they are essential for the health of our customers, our employees and of our nation.”
Goair has temporarily suspended all its flights until 14th April 2020 to-and-from Ahmedabad, Aizawl, Bagdogra, Bengaluru, Bhubaneswar, Chandigarh, Chennai, Delhi, Goa, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Indore, Jaipur, Jammu, Kochi, Kolkata, Kannur, Leh, Lucknow, Mumbai, Nagpur, Patna, Port Blair, Pune, Ranchi, Srinagar and Varanasi, as well as international destinations namely Phuket, Male, Muscat, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Bangkok, Kuwait, and Dammam.
Recently the airline introduced a Protect your PNR offer, wherein the PNR will be protected for upto an year and travellers can fly on a further date.
The statement further said, “Despite these mammoth challenges and the consequent impact it has had on all of us in travel, GoAir has implemented the industry’s most generous customer rescheduling policy. We are the only airline in India that is offering protection to our customers even in the event of a no-show. No other airline in India has protected their customers in a similar manner. Our ‘Protect your PNR’ scheme allows customer to reschedule their travel anytime for 1 year from the date of their original booking.”