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Congress person Rahul Gandhi connected Friday (December 5, 2025) alleged that the IndiGo "fiasco" is the outgo of this government's "monopoly model" and asserted that India deserves just contention successful each sector, not match-fixing monopolies.
In the aftermath of IndiGo cancelling implicit 550 flights connected Thursday (December 4) unsocial and 400 flights connected Friday (December 5), disrupting the question plans of hundreds of passengers, Mr. Gandhi said it is mean Indians who wage the terms successful delays, cancellations and helplessness.
"IndiGo fiasco is the outgo of this Govt's monopoly model. Once again, it's mean Indians who wage the terms — successful delays, cancellations and helplessness," the Leader of Opposition said successful a station connected X.
"India deserves just contention successful each sector, not match-fixing monopolies," Mr. Gandhi asserted.
IndiGo connected Thursday told aviation watchdog DGCA that operations are expected to beryllium afloat stabilised by February 10, 2026, and sought impermanent relaxations successful formation work norms connected a time erstwhile the country's largest hose cancelled much than 550 flights, disrupting the question plans of hundreds of passengers.
Acknowledging that the formation disruptions happening for the past fewer days are chiefly owed to misjudgment and readying gaps successful implementing the 2nd signifier of the Flight Duty Time Limitations (FDTL) norms, IndiGo besides informed the regulator that determination volition beryllium much cancellations till December 8 and from that day, determination volition besides beryllium a simplification successful services.
Civil Aviation Minister K. Rammohan Naidu held a high-level reappraisal gathering to measure the concern of important formation disruptions and expressed his displeasure astatine the mode IndiGo handled the caller FDTL norms implementation contempt having ample time.
