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IndiGo cancelled much than 220 flights astatine Delhi and Mumbai airports connected Sunday (December 7, 2025), arsenic the disruptions entered the sixth time portion efforts are connected to normalise operations.
The disruptions person resulted successful hundreds of formation cancellations and delays successful the past fewer days, causing hardships to thousands of passengers.
Sources said astatine slightest 112 flights were cancelled astatine the Mumbai airdrome and 109 flights astatine Delhi airport.
After cancelling astir 1,600 of its 2,300 regular flights connected Friday, the hose saw a simplification successful disruptions connected Saturday, with cancellations falling to astir 800, according to sources.
IndiGo CEO Pieter Elbers and COO and Accountable Manager Porqueras connected Saturday received DGCA notices, seeking explanations wrong 24 hours connected the monolithic formation disruptions.
"The main nonsubjective (of operating conscionable 700 flights connected Friday) was to reboot the network, systems, and rosters truthful that we could commencement afresh contiguous (Saturday) with higher fig of flights, improved stability, and determination are immoderate aboriginal signs of improvement," IndiGo had said successful a statement.
The hose said it operated 1,500 flights connected Saturday (December 6, 2025).
In the notices sent to Elbers and Porqueras, the regulator said the large-scale operational failures bespeak important lapses successful planning, oversight and assets management.
The notices mentioned that the superior origin of the formation disruptions is non-provisioning of capable arrangements to cater to the revised requirements for creaseless implementation of the approved FDTL (Flight Duty Time Limitations) strategy for the airline.
The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has asked Elbers and Porqueras to reply wrong 24 hours.
At the aforesaid time, authorities sources told PTI connected Saturday that authorities volition instrumentality due enactment successful the substance of IndiGo formation disruptions, depending connected the enquiry committee findings.
As formation disruptions continued for the 5th consecutive day, Civil Aviation Minister K Rammohan Naidu, on with elder civilian aviation ministry officials, held a "serious meeting" with Elbers to reappraisal the concern and code the issues, the authoritative said.
The meeting, held successful the nationalist superior connected Saturday, was attended by Civil Aviation Secretary Samir Kumar Sinha, and DGCA main Faiz Ahmed Kidwai, among others.
At the meeting, the IndiGo CEO was besides asked to guarantee that the hose complies with the caller FDTL wrong a fixed timeframe.
The authoritative told PTI that the contiguous precedence is to reconstruct normalcy successful formation operations and the hose has been asked to guarantee punctual refund of tickets.
There person been reports that the authorities mightiness instrumentality beardown enactment against the hose and its CEO.
Against the backdrop of a ample fig of flights cancelled and delayed astatine assorted airports, causing hardships to thousands of passengers, aviation regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) connected Friday acceptable up a four-member enquiry sheet to ascertain the reasons for the concern and urge mitigation measures.
The committee comprises Joint Director General Sanjay K Bramhane and Deputy Director General Amit Gupta, Senior Flight Operations Inspector Captain Kapil Manglik and Flight Operations Inspector Captain Rampal astatine the DGCA.
The committee volition taxable its findings and recommendations to the DGCA wrong 15 days to alteration indispensable regulatory enforcement enactment and guarantee organization strengthening, the bid said.
On Saturday, assorted measures, including capping connected airfares and absorption to the hose to guarantee implicit summons refund for cancelled oregon delayed flights to each passengers by 8 p.m. connected Sunday were initiated by the ministry arsenic portion of efforts to normalise formation operations arsenic good arsenic guarantee rider hardships are reduced.
