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The Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC), headed by Congress person K.C. Venugopal, connected Saturday (December 20, 2025) directed the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) and different stakeholders to taxable reports connected the caller formation situation and related issues during a gathering held successful Chennai.
Sources said elder representatives from the Ministry of Civil Aviation, DGCA, Airports Authority of India, Airports Economic Regulatory Authority of India (AERA), Bureau of Civil Aviation Security, backstage airlines – including IndiGo’s Chief Financial Officer – and aviator associations specified arsenic the Federation of Indian Pilots and the Indian Pilots Guild appeared earlier the PAC.
It is learnt that the aviator associations asserted the situation could person been averted and that determination was capable availability of pilots. The airline, however, defended itself citing “external factors” and issues related to the unit roster system.
The PAC took beardown objection to the lack of the DGCA Chairman from the gathering and, sources said, sought an mentation for the same.
User Development Fee
Another contented taken up by the PAC was the User Development Fee (UDF), linked to a Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal judgment, which has been challenged by the AERA successful the Supreme Court.
The tribunal’s ruling could pb to the inclusion of non-aeronautical areas, specified arsenic buying malls, successful the calculation of the interest and whitethorn yet enforce an further fiscal load connected passengers, peculiarly astatine privately managed airports.
