Coronavirus: Indigo suspends Delhi-Chengdu flight service
Beijing/New Delhi/IBNS: At a time when coronavirus outbreak has triggered panic across the world, airline major Indigo on Wednesday said it has suspended its flight between Delhi and Chengdu city in China from Feb 1.
Indigo also suspended flight service between Bengaluru and Hong Kong.
"After carefully assessing the current Coronavirus situation in China, IndiGo is taking some safety measures for its customers, crew and staff. Due to China travel restrictions, we have seen a high number of cancellations from China on our Delhi-Chengdu route and vice-a-versa. Therefore, we are suspending our flights between Delhi and Chengdu from February 01, 2020 until February 20, 2020. We are also suspending our Bengaluru- Hong Kong flight effective February 01, 2020," Indigo said in a statement.
"These are purely temporary and precautionary measures. We understand that these measures will cause inconvenience to our customers and we will be refunding the full amount to the impacted passengers," it said.
Indigo said it will continue to operate between Kolkata and Guangzhou flight.
"We are monitoring on a daily basis," the airline major said.
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