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NEW DELHI: The Civil Aviation Ministry and the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) person launched an intensive reappraisal and monitoring workout aft IndiGo reported wide operational disruptions and an unusually precocious fig of formation cancellations crossed its web since precocious November 2025.Civil Aviation Minister reviewed the concern with elder MoCA officials and IndiGo’s apical management, directing the hose and each applicable aviation bodies to instrumentality urgent steps to assistance passengers and stabilise operations. The Ministry said it is keeping a “close watch” connected the situation, according to DGCA's connection cited by ANI."In addition, the Civil Aviation Minister has besides held a gathering with elder officers of the Airport Authority of India and instructed AAI to pass each airdrome directors that they should perpetually show the concern and supply each enactment to stranded passengers.
He besides directed DGCA to intimately show the airfares during the formation disruptions/cancellations," according to the released statement.Apart from the ministry, DGCA, successful a elaborate reappraisal gathering chaired by the Director General (Civil Aviation), flagged concerns implicit IndiGo cancelling 170–200 flights per day, a level importantly higher than mean for the country’s largest airline.IndiGo attributed the disruptions to transitional challenges from the implementation of the revised Flight Duty Time Limitations (FDTL) Civil Aviation Requirements, which came into effect successful 2 phases — 01 July 2025 and 01 November 2025 — pursuing tribunal directions.
The hose said the caller fatigue-management rules, crew-planning issues, and wintertime operational constraints person sharply impacted scheduling stability.DGCA has directed IndiGo to normalise operations astatine the earliest and guarantee that the existent concern does not pb to fare increases.IndiGo has been instructed to submit:
- A broad roadmap linking projected unit recruitment with its planned craft induction.
- A revised program for unit training, roster restructuring, safety-risk assessments and mitigation, ensuring contiguous and afloat compliance with FDTL norms.
- A mitigation program detailing urgent steps to trim cancellations and stabilise formation operations.
- Fortnightly advancement reports for the adjacent respective weeks, covering improvements successful operations, unit availability and roster stability.
- A connection outlining immoderate impermanent FDTL relaxations required to reconstruct normalcy, which DGCA volition assess.
IndiGo says much cancellation successful adjacent fewer weeks
As DGCA released its connection assuring steadfast corrective enactment and adjacent monitoring, IndiGo, however, informed the regulator that stabilising its web volition necessitate a abbreviated modulation period.
The hose told DGCA that further cancellations volition proceed implicit the adjacent 2 to 3 days arsenic portion of its schedule-reset effort aimed astatine restoring roster equilibrium and preventing further last-minute disruptions, arsenic reported by PTI.IndiGo has besides conveyed that it volition proactively standard down formation operations starting December 8 to minimise rider inconvenience and let crew-planning teams to rebuild buffers eroded implicit caller weeks.
According to the airline, this controlled simplification successful operations is indispensable to streamline rosters, align unit availability with revised Flight Duty Time Limitation (FDTL) norms and guarantee that fatigue-management standards are afloat complied with.The bearer has assured DGCA that corrective measures are already underway and that afloat operational stableness volition beryllium restored by February 10, 2026. IndiGo said its betterment program includes accelerated unit recruitment, intensified grooming cycles and a phased reintroduction of flights erstwhile capable staffing and roster resilience are secured.
