I Took One of India’s First Flights in Months. It Was a Pain

  • India allowed some flights on Monday after two-month lockdown
  • ‘The whole thing has happened in a very messy fashion’: Reddy

An employee displays gate information for IndiGo at Delhi Airport, on May 25.

Photographer: T. Narayan/Bloomberg
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As I checked in for one of the first flights in India in two months, the baggage-tag dispenser spat out five boarding passes for me. Given the morning I’d had, this latest glitch wasn’t much of a surprise.