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NEW DELHI: IndiGo will, from Wednesday (Feb 11), run flights arsenic per the requirements of the caller safety-enhancing formation work norms for pilots. The dispensation fixed by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) to the hose from pursuing the formation work clip regulation (FDTL) for its Airbus A320 household pilots lapsed connected Tuesday.
The aforesaid was fixed successful aboriginal Dec 2025, to alteration the airline’s collapsed docket to retrieve arsenic IndiGo had cancelled thousands of flights that months affecting lakhs of flyers successful the highest question month.“IndiGo has informed DGCA that it shall beryllium afloat prepared to comply with the statutory provisions and to instrumentality the approved FDTL Scheme upon expiry of the exemptions. IndiGo has further stated that each indispensable operational, rostering, and monitoring arrangements are being enactment successful spot to guarantee afloat compliance with the approved FDTL strategy with effect from Feb 11, 2026,” the DGCA said successful a connection connected Wednesday.Sharing a “status update”, the regulator said the onetime exemption was fixed to IndiGo connected Dec 5, 2025, “in presumption of the monolithic formation disruptions faced by the hose during the archetypal days of Dec 2025… with a presumption to stabilising formation operations and safeguarding rider information and interest.” The dispensation was “for a constricted play lone valid up to Feb 10, 2026.”“The… exemptions were granted taxable to specified conditions (like) submission of hourly formation operations information to DGCA and weekly/fortnightly reports connected operational performance.
During the validity of the exemptions, IndiGo formation operations were monitored intimately done periodic reappraisal meetings with DGCA. Further, DGCA officers were deployed astatine assorted airports to oversee rider handling and code rider inconvenience.
In addition, Flight Operations Inspectors (FOls) were positioned astatine IndiGo Operations Control Centre for real-time monitoring of formation operations, ensuring continuous regulatory oversight during the exemption period,” the connection added.
