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Coronavirus Outbreak: Aviation stocks fall after DGCA directive to stop bookings for travel after 3 May

Airline stocks fell up to 5.5 percent on Monday after regulator DGCA directed airlines to stop taking bookings for travel after 3 May

|Apr 20, 2020, 18:35:40 IST

New Delhi: Airline stocks on Monday settled up to 6 percent lower after the civil aviation regulator DGCA directed airlines to stop taking bookings for travel after 3 May. Shares of InterGlobe Aviation, parent of IndiGo, tumbled 6.05 percent to close at Rs 1,004.50 per unit and those of SpiceJet fell by 1.85 percent to Rs 47.70 apiece on the BSE.[caption id="attachment_4404141" align="alignleft" width="380"]

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[/caption]DGCA on Sunday directed airlines to stop taking bookings for travel after 3 May, assuring them that they would be given sufficient time to restart flight operations.Click here to follow LIVE updates on coronavirus outbreakThe Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) issued a circular stating, "all airlines are hereby directed to refrain from booking tickets... Further, the airlines may note that they shall be given sufficient notice and time for restarting operations."Click here to follow LIVE news and updates on stock marketsAll domestic and international commercial passenger flights have been suspended for the lockdown period. However, cargo and special flights permitted by the DGCA can fly in this period.The first phase of the lockdown was from 25 March to 14 April. The second phase began on 15 April and ends on 3 May.

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