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NEW DELHI: IndiGo will, from Wednesday (Feb 11), operate flights as per the requirements of the new safety-enhancing flight duty norms for pilots. The dispensation given by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) to the airline from following the flight duty time limitation (FDTL) for its Airbus A320 family pilots lapsed on Tuesday. The…
IndiGo on Tuesday said it has an adequate pool of staff, including pilots, to ensure smooth and stable operations as the Directorate General of Civil Aviation’s (DGCA) temporary relaxations on pilot duty norms come to an end. The statement comes after the airline faced widespread flight disruptions in early December, which prompted regulatory action and…
InterGlobe Aviation shares fell sharply on Thursday after Competition Commission of India (CCI) ordered initiating a detailed investigation into IndiGo over alleged unfair business practices. The stock dropped over 3% during the morning session. On the BSE, shares of the airline’s parent company slid 3.65% to Rs 4,782.45, while on the NSE they declined 3.63%…
NEW DELHI: After its narrow body operations, IndiGo will now cut its Europe & UK flights mounted on wide body aircraft too. Copenhagen flights will be suspended till further notice from Feb 17. The airline says its twin aisle operations have “faced external operational constraints; continuously changing airspace constraints due to geo-political circumstances and congestion…
NEW DELHI: The wing tips of a stationary Air India Airbus A320 and an IndiGo A320 scraped each other at Mumbai Airport on Tuesday. The Air India aircraft, getting ready to fly to Coimbatore as AI 2732, was stationary. The IndiGo aircraft, having flown into Mumbai from Hyderabad as 6E 791, was taxying.Both aircraft left…
NEW DELHI: IndiGo on Tuesday issued a fresh travel advisory amid rising political tensions in Iran, announcing the cancellation of flights to and from Tbilisi, Almaty, Baku and Tashkent until February 28, 2026.In a statement, the airline said the decision was taken in view of the “developing situation around Iran” to ensure the safety of…
IndiGo CEO says December disruptions lasted only ‘three days’ NEW DELHI: After lakhs of IndiGo passengers were left stranded in December, CEO Pieter Elbers, in a first press interaction after the flight disruption last month, said that the airline failed its customers ‘for three days’.When the media pointed out that the disruptions went on for…
NEW DELHI: IndiGo on Tuesday extended the cancellation of its flights to Tbilisi, Almaty, Baku and Tashkent till February 11, citing the current situation in Iran. Earlier, the airline had cancelled flights to these destinations only till January 28. In a post on X, IndiGo said it had reviewed recent developments around Iran and made…
NEW DELHI: With the Iran crisis simmering, IndiGo has cancelled its Tbilisi, Almaty, Tashkent and Baku flights till Jan 28. Air India, which had been overflying the safer eastern parts of Iran on its flights to and from North America, will now examine the situation once the same resume after the snowstorm on the east…
Aviation giant IndiGo has vacated over 700 slots at domestic airports including Delhi, Bengaluru and Mumbai. The move follows a 10% reduction in IndiGo’s winter flight schedule, ordered by regulatory watchdog DGCA, after severe operational disruptions in early December that affected thousands of passengers. Slots is a specific time period allocated to an airline for…
