DGCA asks IndiGo CEO to appear on December 11 with full data on flight disruptions, updates

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Passengers waiting astatine  Rajiv Gandhi International Airport, successful  Hyderabad, amid continued cancellations of IndiGo flights.

Passengers waiting astatine Rajiv Gandhi International Airport, successful Hyderabad, amid continued cancellations of IndiGo flights. | Photo Credit: G. Ramakrishna

Aviation information regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has directed crisis-ridden IndiGo's Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Pieter Elbers to look astatine its bureau connected Thursday (December 11, 2025) and taxable a implicit report, on with broad information and updates, relating to the caller operational disruptions, a connection said connected Wednesday (December 10).

Mr. Elbers has been asked to look astatine the DGCA bureau astatine 3 p.m. connected Thursday (December 11).

DGCA besides said that the CEO, on with elder officials from each applicable departments, has been instructed to be the meeting.

As per the regulator's order, the hose has been asked to contiguous accusation connected the formation restoration, recruitment program of pilots and crew, with updated presumption of aviator and compartment unit strength, fig of flights cancelled and refunds processed, among others.

Following large-scale disruptions to its services, which resulted successful thousands of flights being cancelled, delayed oregon rescheduled, the DGCA appointed a sheet to probe the disruptions.

The four-member committee has been mandated to place the basal causes down the operational breakdown. It comprises Joint D.G. (Director General) Sanjay Brahamane, Deputy Director General Amit Gupta, elder Flight Operations Inspector (FOI) Kapil Manglik, and FOI Lokesh Rampal. The sheet volition intimately analyse manpower planning, fluctuating unit rostering systems and the airline's readiness to instrumentality the latest work play and remainder norms for pilots.

Announced by DGCA main Faiz Ahmed Kidwai connected December 5, the sheet volition besides reappraisal IndiGo's compliance with the revised Flight Duty Time Limitation (FDTL) provisions. This includes assessing gaps admitted by the hose and fixing accountability for readying failures that resulted successful wide disruptions.

Published - December 10, 2025 03:24 p.m. IST

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