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With the IndiGo formation disruptions continuing connected the 5th consecutive day, the Ministry of Civil Aviation connected Saturday (December 6, 2025) announced capping of airfares to power the surge successful summons prices owed to breakdown successful the backstage carrier’s formation services.
Invoked its regulatory powers, the ministry took enactment of the “unusually precocious airfares” amid travellers booked with IndiGo making alternate arrangements. IndiGo cancelled implicit 400 flights from 4 large airports arsenic of Saturday (December 6) afternoon.
“An authoritative directive has been issued to each airlines mandating strict adherence to the fare caps that person present been prescribed. These caps volition stay successful unit until the concern afloat stabilises,” a property connection from the ministry connected Saturday (December 6) said.
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Any deviation from the prescribed norms volition pull contiguous corrective enactment successful the larger nationalist interest, it added.
Last clip the government-imposed fare caps was successful May 2020 erstwhile a constricted fig of flights were allowed to resume pursuing a two-month prohibition during lockdown measures. The caps were antithetic terms slabs based connected formation distance.
The nonsubjective of this directive, the ministry said, is to support pricing subject successful the market, forestall immoderate exploitation of passengers successful distress. The headdress connected airfares shall “ensure that citizens who urgently request to question — including elder citizens, students, and patients — are not subjected to fiscal hardship during this period”.
The cancellation of implicit 400 IndiGo flights crossed 4 large airports connected Saturday (December 6) comes 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 the cockpit crew.
Of these, 124 flights (63 departures and 61 arrivals) were cancelled astatine Bengaluru airdrome and 109 flights — 51 departures and 58 arrivals — astatine Mumbai airport, PTI reported.
The Ministry volition proceed to intimately show fare levels done real-time information and progressive coordination with airlines and online question platforms, the merchandise read.
With PTI inputs
