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The Delhi High Court connected Wednesday (January 28, 2026) sought a effect from the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) connected a plea challenging its determination to support successful abeyance the revised Flight Duty Time Limitation (FDTL) rules which prescribe resting clip for pilots and unit members.
Observing that erstwhile the information regulations are framed, they indispensable beryllium enforced instantly unless they suffered from ineligible infirmities, the Division Bench of Chief Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya and Justice Tejas Karia directed the counsel appearing for the DGCA to get instructions successful the substance by Thursday (January 29, 2026).
“.....These regulations person a nonstop nexus with information measures for passengers,” the Bench remarked.
The revised FDTL norms, framed by the DGCA successful 2025, are aimed astatine improving formation information by limiting the flying hours of pilots and different unit members. The caller rules besides reduced nighttime landings, aligning with planetary fatigue-risk standards.
Following large-scale formation cancellations and operational difficulties faced by airlines successful precocious 2025, particularly IndiGo, these norms were precocious enactment connected hold.
In the Public Interest Litigation (PIL), the petitioners, including erstwhile craft engineers, highlighted that the revised FDTL regulations aligned with planetary information standards prescribed by the International Civil Aviation Organization. Keeping the norms successful abeyance compromised rider information and undermined the precise nonsubjective for which the regulations were framed, the PIL contended.
