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© 2020 Indian Journal of Anaesthesia | Published by Wolters Kluwer Medknow The difficult airway has always posed varying degrees of challenges to the anaesthesiologists. Never before have had these challenges acquired a gigantic stature as they have during the present corona pandemic. This pandemic is necessitating and forcing the anaesthesia fraternity to bring some changes to the established definite algorithm of difficult airway management. Even the teaching manuals and protocols need to be modified to a varied extent taking into consideration the risks posed during normal intubation and ventilation in corona virus disease (COVID) patients. These risks are further amplified if one is confronted with a difficult airway. The Indian Society of Anaesthesiologists (ISA) national has in its recently published Advisory and Position Statement regarding the ‘Corona Virus Disease 2019’ (COVID-19) given important tips on airway management in suspected/ confirmed COVID-19 patients in India.[1,2] The All India Difficult Airway Association (AIDAA) has in this issue of the Indian Journal Of Anaesthesia (IJA) presented its Consensus Guidelines for airway management in the operating room (OR) during the COVID-19 pandemic.[3]