Face mask mandatory for air passengers at airports, inside flights: DGCA issues new guidelines

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The civil aviation regulator further warned that such passengers will be removed from the aircraft before departure if they are found without a face mask and not following COVID-appropriate behaviour. 

NEW DELHI: Amid rising cases of coronavirus in the country, the civil aviation regulator DGCA on Wednesday issued new guidelines for air passengers and made face masks mandatory at all airports and inside the flights. In its new guidelines, the DGCA said that those passengers who do not wear masks on the flight can be treated as ‘unruly’.

In line with Delhi HC order, aviation regulator DGCA issues new Covid norms for airports, aircraft making masks mandatory throughout the journey, and permits mask removal only under exceptional circumstances. Violators may be treated as 'unruly passengers'.

— ANI (@ANI) June 8, 2022

The civil aviation regulator further warned that such passengers will be removed from the aircraft before departure if they are found without a face mask and not following COVID-appropriate behaviour. 

Giving details, the civil aviation regulator DGCA said the CISF personnel will be in charge of enforcing mask guidelines at the airports.