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Domestic bearer IndiGo has cancelled implicit 200 flights from Delhi and Mumbai connected Saturday (December 6, 2025), a time aft managing to temporarily unafraid large relaxations successful the 2nd signifier of the court-mandated caller formation work and remainder play norms for cockpit crew, sources said.
Of these cancelled flights, 109 IndiGo flights were cancelled astatine Mumbai airport, 51 arrivals and 58 departures, and 106 flights astatine Delhi airport, which included 54 departures and 52 arrivals, they said.
On Friday (December 5), erstwhile IndiGo cancelled implicit 1,000 flights from crossed airports, IndiGo CEO Pieter Elbers, aft maintaining a stoic soundlessness implicit the sedate situation for 3 days, apologised successful a video connection for the large inconvenience caused to passengers owed to the disruptions.
In the one-way video communication, Mr. Elbers besides said that the hose was expecting less than 1,000 flights connected Saturday (December 6).
It whitethorn beryllium mentioned present that connected Friday (December 5), DGCA provided impermanent alleviation to IndiGo, which is partially owned by Rahul Bhatia, by mode of rolling backmost the nighttime work explanation to 12 a.m.-5 a.m/ from 12 a.m.-6 a.m. earlier, and allowing its pilots to bash six night-landings from 2 earlier, too different relaxations.
It is worthy noting that IndiGo was the archetypal bearer to reason the caller FDTL norms for pilots erstwhile they were introduced successful January 2024, with a March implementation timeline. The norms were primitively to beryllium enactment successful spot successful March 2024.
IndiGo resumes 9 flights from Jammu Airport, cancels 7 from Srinagar
IndiGo connected Saturday (December 6, 2025) announced the resumption of 9 of its 11 flights from the Jammu Airport, but cancelled 7 flights from Srinagar, owing to the nationwide disruptions caused by the airline’s pilot-rostering issues.
The resumption of flights from Jammu brought much-needed respite to travellers who were near stranded astatine the airdrome aft a bid of cancellations. On the contrary, a full of 8 flights -- 7 operated by IndiGo -- stood cancelled astatine the Srinagar International Airport.
The hose was scheduled to run 36 flights from the Srinagar airdrome connected Saturday, 18 inbound and 18 outbound, officials said.
However, owing to rostering issues, IndiGo cancelled 7 arriving and arsenic galore departing flights, they said, adding that to and fro question of different formation from a abstracted hose was besides cancelled.
Further details were awaited, the officials said.
