IndiGo Disruption Caused Flight Chaos Across India
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IndiGo is facing a major operational crisis due to staff shortages and new crew regulations. Passengers at major airports, including Delhi, Hyderabad, Bengaluru, and Kolkata, are dealing with long delays and rising airfares.
On Day 7 of the IndiGo crisis, the carrier scrapped more than 400 flights, with major airports such as Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru and Hyderabad seeing disruptions. The airline, whose stock is down by 7 per cent today,
A high-level review meeting on the IndiGo flight disruptions was convened by the Ministry of Civil Aviation and the
IndiGo's operations face an eighth consecutive day of disruptions due to a government mandate aimed at reducing pilot fatigue, which was later withdrawn. Here's all you need to know about the total number of cancellations,
India's largest airline, IndiGo, is grappling with one of its most serious operational disruptions in recent years, as more than 200 flights were cancelled and hundreds more delayed across major airports on Tuesday and Wednesday.
IndiGo flight status LIVE updates: Over 400 IndiGo flights were cancelled on Tuesday, most of them in Delhi and Bengaluru. The airline operates 2,200 flights a day in the winter schedule, but the DGCA has directed it to cut it by 5 per cent.
IndiGo Flights Cancellation LIVE: An IndiGo official said that the airline will carry out a ‘root cause analysis’ into the flight disruptions. IndiGo operations continued to remain disrupted for the sixth consecutive day,
According to the regulator, the decision comes as IndiGo was scheduled to operate 64,346 flights in November; however, it was able to operate only 59,438 flights. A total of 951 flight cancellations were recorded during the week.
The cancellations will apply to high-frequency domestic routes and not to the roughly 600 routes where IndiGo is the sole operator
While IndiGo's present chaos paints a grim picture, it is impossible to ignore that it is the biggest success story in Indian aviation
IndiGo pilots allege the recent flight cancellation and delay crisis was engineered to undermine new safety norms and pressure the government to suspend revised Flight Duty Time Limitation (FDTL) rules.