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Airlines including Air India and IndiGo have started new flights to fill the vacuum left by cash-strapped Go First's cancellation of flights at the peak of summer travel season..
IndiGo has launched flights connecting the two cities from Mumbai..
The Wadias-owned Go First filed for voluntary insolvency proceedings on May 3. While the bankruptcy court has put a moratorium on the low-cost airline's assets, including arrival and departure slots at airports, the government has allocated them as an interim measure till May 23, the date till when Go First has announced suspension of flights...
Air India chief executive Campbell Wilson told employees in a note on Friday that the airline was planning to quickly increase domestic flights to "fill the gap left by another airline's curtailment of flights, (and) to minimise capacity, frequency and airfare disruptions to the public."..
Data from Cirium show that according to the schedule filed by Go First for May, the airline was supposed to operate 199 flights from Delhi to Srinagar, 182 flights on the Delhi-Leh route and 156 flights from Mumbai to Goa..
