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The Delhi High Court connected Thursday (January 22, 2026) asked IndiGo to record an affidavit connected payment of refund for cancelled tickets and compensation to passengers who were stranded amid wide cancellation of its flights successful December past year.
The counsel for the low-cost aerial bearer told a Bench of Chief Justice D.K. Upadhyaya and Justice Tejas Karia that refund for the cancelled flights had been processed, and compensation was besides being offered successful presumption of the civilian aviation requirements for cancellation of flights.
The counsel besides said that for flights that were "most severely impacted", ₹10,000 was being offered arsenic vouchers, and a website has been acceptable up for passengers to assertion the compensation.
"Let an affidavit beryllium filed by responsive no. 3 to this effect successful 2 weeks," said the Bench.
The tribunal was proceeding a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) by advocates Akhil Rana and Utkarsh Sharma seeking directions to the Centre to supply enactment and refunds to passengers affected by the cancellation of hundreds of flights by IndiGo successful aboriginal December.
Between December 3 and 5, arsenic per the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), 2,507 flights were cancelled, and 1,852 flights were delayed, impacting implicit 3 lakh passengers astatine airports crossed the country.
IndiGo cancelled hundreds of flights crossed the state arsenic the hose was not adequately prepared to instrumentality the caller formation work norms for pilots.
The petitioner said Indigo was offering ₹10,000 arsenic a question voucher to the stranded passengers, which would expire successful immoderate time.
On being informed that the voucher has a validity of 12 months, the Bench asked the IndiGo counsel to clarify what would hap to the voucher if an idiosyncratic was incapable to utilise it wrong the prescribed clip frame.
The counsel said helium would instrumentality instructions.
"Please record an affidavit," the Bench said.
Additional Solicitor General Chetan Sharma appeared connected behalf of the Civil Aviation Ministry and DGCA, and submitted that respective steps were taken by the authorities successful the aftermath of the crisis.
A elder vice president of the hose was told to beryllium dismissed from service, and a punishment of ₹22 crore was besides imposed, helium said.
Further, a slope warrant of ₹50 crore was asked for amended compliances and immoderate elder officials successful the airlines, similar the CEO and COO, were warned.
A study of the enquiry initiated by a committee into the disruption was besides tendered to the tribunal successful a sealed cover.
The substance would beryllium heard adjacent connected February 25.
