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IndiGo flights. File | Photo Credit: PTI The Delhi High Court on Thursday (January 22, 2026) asked IndiGo to file an affidavit on payment of refund for cancelled tickets and compensation to passengers who were stranded amid mass cancellation of its flights in December last year. The counsel for the low-cost air carrier told a…
Over the last decade, India’s skies have grown busier than ever. The country has emerged as the world’s third-largest domestic aviation market, driven by rapid economic growth, rising middle-class travel and expanding regional connectivity. However, while the number of airports has surged, the number of airlines has shrunk, making IndiGo virtually synonymous with air travel…
Passengers will be intimated about cancellations 72 hours in advance, officials say. File | Photo Credit: B. Velankanni Raj Indian low-cost airline IndiGo has decided to cut 400-500 flights to achieve “full stabilisation of schedule” to ensure passengers can fly with certainty. Editorial: Chaos foretold: on the Indigo crisis, air safety The airline will now…
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Union Minister of Civil Aviation Kinjarapu Ram Mohan Naidu discusses the ongoing disruptions caused by the delays and cancellations of IndiGo flights, in New Delhi. File. | Photo Credit: ANI Civil Aviation Minister K. Ram Mohan Naidu on Monday (December 8, 2025) said the government will curtail IndiGo’s winter flight schedule and allocate them to…
Airfares between Mangaluru and other important cities, including Mumbai, have almost tripled even as the Union Civil Aviation Ministry ordered keeping the flight duty time limitations (FDTL) orders of the Directorate General of Civil Aviation in abeyance with immediate effect, on Friday. Mangaluru International Airport, in a statement here, said 18 flights, nine each arrivals…
Stranded passengers search for their luggage near a counter after IndiGo cancelled more than 400 flights, at the Kempegowda International Airport, in Bengaluru, Karnataka, on December 5, 2025. | Photo Credit: PTI The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on Friday (December 5, 2025) cleared IndiGo’s plea for exemption from night-duty limits for pilots. This…
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The Pilots’ body Federation of Indian Pilots (FIP) has alleged that IndiGo, despite getting a two-year preparatory window before the full implementation of new flight duty and rest period norms for cockpit crew, “inexplicably” adopted a “hiring freeze.” The FIP said it has urged the safety regulator, Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), not to…
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As per the data, India’s domestic air passenger traffic grew 29.10 percent at 1.22 crore in September Over 76,000 passengers of budget carrier IndiGo were affected due to the airline cancelling its flights or delaying them by more than two hours in September, while Tata-owned Air India denied boarding to 450 passengers during the month,…
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