Key Highlights
- The regulator has asked the airline to assess the potential impact on its routes and flight schedules before a final decision is taken, a senior government official told The Hindu.
- The move comes after widespread disruptions that led to over 4,000 flight cancellations in the past week.
- IndiGo had earlier informed the DGCA and the Ministry of Civil Aviation that the disruptions stemmed from “planning gaps and a misjudgment” in estimating crew requirements under the government’s revised norms governing night flying for pilots, including for the first time capping the number of landings allowed per night shift to two in response to concerns over mounting fatigue.
- As per the airline’s own submission, it currently has 65 fewer captains than required — 2,357 available against the 2,422 needed to comply with the new rule that came into effect from November 1 and snowballed into a major crisis for the airline a month later.
- IndiGo currently operates around 2,300 daily flights across its domestic and international network.
