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A mounting aviator shortage astatine IndiGo is resulting successful formation cancellations and ample fig of delays by upto 7 hours which is exacerbated connected Wednesday (December 3, 2025) by immoderate compartment unit nary shows successful Mumbai.
The aviator shortage is triggered by the afloat implementation of the stricter remainder and work norms for them effectual November 1.
Over the past fewer weeks, airline’s operations squad person reached retired to pilots to instrumentality aboriginal from their sick leaves and asked others to springiness up their privilege leave.
Government information showed that lone 35% of the airline’s flights were connected clip connected December 2, and 49.5% were connected clip connected December 1.
To marque matters worse, nary amusement by immoderate unit connected Wednesday delayed respective flights,including the Mumbai-Maldives service.
In Bengaluru’s Kempegowda International Airport, respective IndiGo flights person been cancelled for the 2nd consecutive day.
As galore arsenic 19 IndiGo flights, some arrivals and departures, were cancelled successful Hyderabad.
In backstage Whatsapp conversations, pilots are furious implicit airlines trying to misinterpret the caller remainder and work norms to flooded the shortage. The substance was besides taken up by aviator assemblage Airlines Pilot Association (ALPA) during a gathering with the Director General astatine DGCA past week.
