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“More than 250 IndiGo flights were cancelled from Delhi and Bengaluru airports connected Monday (December 8, 2025) arsenic the disruptions successful the crisis-hit airline's formation operations entered the seventh day,” sources said.
In different development, aviation information regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) successful an bid connected Sunday precocious evening (December 7, 2025) extended the clip by Monday 6 p.m. (December 8, 2025) for IndiGo CEO Pieter Elbers and Chief Operating Officer and Accountable Manager Isidro Porqueras to taxable reply to its show-cause announcement implicit the ongoing disruptions successful the airline's operations.
In the notices issued to Mr. Elbers and Mr. Porqueras connected Saturday (December 6, 2025), the regulator said the large-scale operational failures pointed to important lapses successful planning, oversight, and assets management, and asked them to taxable their replies wrong 24 hours. “IndiGo has cancelled 251 flights from Delhi and Bengaluru airports connected Monday (December 8, 2025),” sources said.
“At the Delhi airport, 134 flights were cancelled — 75 departures and 59 arrivals — portion astatine the Bengaluru airport, the bearer cancelled 117 services — 65 arrivals and 62 departures,” they said.
IndIGo has been facing vigor from some the authorities and the passengers for cancelling hundreds of flights since December 2, 2025, citing regulatory changes successful the pilots' caller formation work and regulations norms, which resulted successful lakhs of passengers getting stuck astatine airports pan-India.
For the archetypal 3 days the airline, which is partially owned by Rahul Bhatia, failed to admit the immense fig of cancellations and it was lone connected Friday (December 5, 2025) erstwhile it cancelled 1,600 flights (Friday), a grounds successful Indian aviation past that CEO Elbers released a video apologising for the large inconvenience caused to passengers owing to the disruptions.
In the message, helium admitted that the hose was cancelling a ample fig of flights, but did not notation that it would cancel 1,600 flights connected that peculiar day. The caller norms, applicable for each home carriers, person travel into unit successful 2 phases — July 1 and November 1 this year.
IndiGo has already temporarily secured large relaxations successful the 2nd signifier norms till February 10. The latest FDTL norms, which entail accrued play remainder periods to 48 hours, extended nighttime hours, and limiting the fig of nighttime landings to lone two, arsenic against six earlier, were initially opposed by home airlines, including IndiGo and Tata Group-owned Air India.
But they were subsequently rolled retired by the DGCA pursuing the Delhi High Court's directives, albeit with a hold of much than 1 year, successful a phased manner, and with definite variations for airlines specified arsenic IndiGo and Air India.
The norms were primitively to beryllium enactment successful spot from March 2024, but airlines, including IndiGo, sought a step-by-step implementation, citing further unit requirements.
