The domestic passenger flights resumed from Monday after a hiatus of two months due to the nationwide Covid-19 lockdown. The first day, however, was full of confusion as different states imposed their own set of conditions on reopening airports.

On Sunday evening, Civil Aviation minister Hardeep Singh Puri tweeted: “It has been a long day of hard negotiations with various state govts to recommence civil aviation operations in the country. Except Andhra Pradesh which will start on 26/5 & West Bengal on 28/5, domestic flights will recommence across the country from tomorrow.”

Meanwhile, Several passengers said their flights were cancelled and complained they did not get any intimation from airlines.

Officials said nearly 80 flights to and from Delhi were cancelled due to restrictions by states, officials said.

Several passengers in Mumbai and Bengaluru also complained about cancellations.

“Only when our boarding passes were scanned at the airport entry we were told that boarding has been cancelled. We don’t know what to do now,” a passenger of an Air India Bengaluru-Hyderabad flight said to media.

Air travel resumed across India this morning, two months after the lockdown announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, bringing relief to the aviation sector that was on the brink of collapse.

Of the total 45 flights, 10 flights have been listed to be operated to and from Delhi, four Kochi, Hyderabad, Varanasi, Bengaluru and Patna, two to be operated to and from Calicut, Diu, Lucknow, Nagpur, Chandigarh, Gorakhpur, Allahabad and one flight to Jaipur.

The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has issued guidelines that all arriving passengers would be screened for their body temperature and stamped on their hands for a mandatory 14-day home quarantine.