IndiGo’s operational crisis showed no signs of easing on Tuesday, with more than 350 flights cancelled across major airports even as the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) pressed ahead with punitive measures. The disruption, now in its eighth consecutive day, has left lakhs of passengers stranded nationwide.
According to airport officials, Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru and Hyderabad continued to bear the brunt of cancellations on Tuesday.
Delhi airport: 152 flights cancelled — 76 arrivals, 76 departures
Bengaluru airport: 121 flights cancelled — 58 arrivals, 63 departures
Hyderabad airport: 58 flights cancelled — 14 arrivals, 44 departures
Mumbai airport: 31 flights cancelled — 14 arrivals, 17 departures
The cascading cancellations also affected operations at Ahmedabad, Chennai, Kolkata, Pune, Guwahati, Goa and Thiruvananthapuram, deepening the nationwide travel chaos.
Civil Aviation Minister Ram Mohan Naidu Kinjarapu said in a post on X that a high-level review meeting was held on Monday to conduct a comprehensive assessment of IndiGo’s operations. Senior officials were instructed to carry out on-ground inspections across key airports on Tuesday to evaluate the severity of disruption.
Meanwhile, the DGCA has summoned IndiGo’s top leadership, including CEO Pieter Elbers, to appear before a four-member committee on Wednesday to explain the mass cancellations and the airline’s operational lapses.
The regulator has already imposed a penalty, curtailing 5 percent of IndiGo’s scheduled flights, and directed the airline to file a revised winter schedule by 5 pm on December 10. The ministry said the action followed repeated failures by the carrier to run flights as per its submitted schedule.
In an interview with DD News, Minister Naidu rejected the airline’s attribution of the crisis to its Aircraft Maintenance and Scheduling System (AMSS), stating that the core issue lay in internal crew rostering and operational planning.
With the disruption stretching into a second week and passenger frustration intensifying, pressure is mounting on IndiGo and aviation authorities to restore normalcy swiftly.
