Chaos deepens at RGIA as 92 more IndiGo flights cancelled, three-day count reaches 197

Mass cancellations by IndiGo continued to disrupt question plans connected the 3rd consecutive time for thousands of passengers, starring to sustained chaos astatine Hyderabad’s Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGIA) connected Friday (December 5, 2025). The airdrome officials confirmed that 92 IndiGo flights were cancelled, including 43 arrivals and 49 departures.

This followed 2 days of escalating disruption, opening connected Wednesday with 31 cancellations and worsening sharply connected Thursday, erstwhile 74 flights were grounded and ample crowds packed the terminals amid disorder and a dense Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) presence. The full fig of cancelled flights truthful acold has climbed to 197, leaving terminals crowded and passengers scrambling for alternatives.

Long queues, frayed tempers and anxious families were again seen crossed RGIA connected Friday . With passengers flooding communal gross areas , travellers booked connected different airlines besides recovered themselves struggling to scope check-in counters and boarding gates, arsenic congestion spilled crossed the terminal. Amid the mounting chaos, the RGIA constabulary deployed further unit astatine the IndiGo enquiry counters to negociate agitated passengers and forestall further disorder.

A household of 4 travelling to Goa said they were stranded for much than 12 hours. “Our edifice preservation has already been cancelled due to the fact that we couldn’t check-in connected time, and they’ve refused a refund,” said 1 of the passengers. “We besides person instrumentality tickets for the weekend. At this rate, we whitethorn not adjacent marque it to Goa, fto unsocial travel back. And the hose is besides not assisting with the refunds.”

Another passenger, who had booked a Hyderabad–Bengaluru formation for 1.15 p.m. connected December 4, said the docket changed repeatedly earlier the work was yet cancelled aboriginal connected Friday.

“First it was pushed to 10.10 p.m. connected December 3, past rescheduled again to 9.20 a.m. connected December 5. So today, portion we were astir to permission for the airport, astatine astir 5.15 a.m, a connection arrived saying the formation had been cancelled. All different airlines, arsenic expected, hiked their fares. I was taking my 86-year aged parent to a wedding successful Bangalore wherever she was meant to conscionable her 92-year aged relative who had travelled each the mode from Malaysia. Now we are exploring the Vande Bharat option,” helium said.

Frustration spilled implicit connected societal media arsenic well. “Stranded astatine Hyderabad Airport for 12+ hours with zero updates from the airline. Passengers are exhausted, confused, and near without immoderate clarity. This is perfectly unacceptable and profoundly disappointing. No traveller should person to spell done this ordeal,” a rider wrote connected X. Another idiosyncratic shared photos of crowded gates, saying, “Full-blown chaos astatine Indigo counters. People frustrated with their ain delays are present stopping others from boarding.”

IndiGo issues apology

In a connection released precocious connected Thursday night, IndiGo said, “The past 2 days person seen wide disruption crossed IndiGo’s web and operations. We widen a heartfelt apology to each our customers and manufacture stakeholders who person been impacted. Our teams are moving diligently, with enactment from MoCA, DGCA, BCAS, AAI and airdrome operators, to trim the cascading interaction of these delays and reconstruct normalcy.”

The hose urged passengers to enactment updated connected changes to their flights and to cheque the latest accusation earlier heading to the airport.