Published - December 05, 2025 11:20 pm IST - New Delhi Passengers line up at an IndiGo Airlines ticket counter at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in Hyderabad, India, as several Indigo Airlines flights were either cancelled or delayed on December 5, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP IndiGo cancelled more than 1,000 flights on Friday (December 5, 2025) and will axe hundreds more on Saturday (December 6, 2025), crippling air travel across India and sending airfares skyrocketing, which prompted the government to exempt the country’s largest airline from meeting new rules until February 10. The airline suspended all departures from the Delhi airport for the entire day to reboot its systems and stop cascading delays.
