This will also give some encouragement to the pandemic-hit industry, where earnings had almost hit zero levels with limited support coming from the government under Aatmanirbhar Bharat programme.
When the pandemic started spreading across the country, all scheduled international flights and domestic passenger flights were suspended from March 23 and March 25, respectively.
The airline will operate a Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner aircraft between the Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi and its hometown hub at the O'Hare International Airport in Chicago.
The aviation regulator further clarified that international scheduled flights may be allowed on selected routes by the "competent authority on case to case basis".