In anticipation of rising travel demand on the back of an accelerated vaccination programme, several domestic airlines are planning to initiate an internal inoculation drive for their workforce. Accordingly, low-cost carrier GoAir will soon commence a programme to get its entire workforce vaccinated free of cost. The airline has tied up with various hospitals in different cities for the vaccination programme. "The airline will bear the cost for both vaccine doses," it said.

Besides, GoAir has also planned to allow the vaccinated employees to take two days' leave over and above the entitled threshold. At present, the airline has 4,481 employees in its workforce, who will get vaccinated. Another airline -- SpiceJet -- will start an inoculation drive for all its employees from May 17. The company-sponsored vaccination drive will start from Delhi and Gurugram and will cover SpiceJet employees across all the stations on the airline's network.