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Air passengers continued to endure astatine Chennai airdrome connected Friday (December 5, 2025) arsenic IndiGo cancelled 31 flights.
Officials from the Airports Authority of India (AAI) said IndiGo had written to Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) authorities astatine Chennai airport, asking them to halt each departing passengers from entering the terminal until 6 p.m., arsenic astir of the base-flight passengers were inactive successful the check-in and boarding areas. On Thursday (December 4), too, 31 flights were cancelled astatine Chennai airport.
Officials said from 2.30 a.m. until 8.30 p.m., 20 departure flights scheduled from Chennai airdrome to New Delhi, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Guwahati, Pune, Kochi, Bengaluru, Singapore, Mumbai, Coimbatore, and Port Blair person been cancelled. Eleven accomplishment flights from Bengaluru, Hindon, Kolkata, Jaipur, New Delhi, and Mumbai person besides been cancelled citing operational reasons.
All flights to Bengaluru, Mumbai, New Delhi, Kolkata, and Hyderabad scheduled for departure till 6 p.m. basal cancelled, officials said.
This flurry of IndiGo formation cancellations crossed the state has been triggered by mediocre readying of aviator rostering. From November 1, the caller rules for remainder and work hours for pilots came into effect.
In a connection issued precocious connected Thursday night, the hose said: “The past 2 days person seen wide disruption crossed IndiGo’s web and operations. We widen a heartfelt apology to each our customers and manufacture stakeholders who person been impacted by these events. IndiGo teams are moving diligently and making each efforts with the enactment of MOCA, DGCA, BCAS, AAI and airdrome operators to trim the cascading interaction of these delays and reconstruct normalcy.”
“We proceed to support our customers apprised of immoderate changes to their scheduled flights and counsel them to cheque the latest presumption astatine https://www.goindigo.in/check-flight-status.html earlier heading to the airport. IndiGo profoundly regrets the inconvenience caused and remains focused connected streamlining its operations astatine the earliest,” it further said.
