IndiGo cancelled greater than 70 flights and reported widespread delays on Wednesday amid an acute scarcity of crew following the rollout of Section-2 Flight Obligation Time Limitation norms
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IndiGo has cancelled over 70 flights, together with these from Bengaluru and Mumbai airports, on Wednesday, primarily on account of crew shortages, sources stated.
Scores of IndiGo flights have been delayed at varied airports, because the provider struggled to get the crew for working its flights, sources stated.
IndiGo stated there have been cancellations and delays.
“Now we have had a number of unavoidable flight delays and a few cancellations up to now few days on account of varied causes together with expertise points, airport congestion, and operational necessities,” the airline spokesperson stated in a press release.
Crew crunch deepens
“IndiGo has been dealing with acute crew scarcity for the reason that implementation of the second section of the FDTL norms, resulting in cancellations and big delays in its operations throughout the airports,” a supply informed PTI.
“The state of affairs turned unhealthy on Tuesday for the airline and the scarcity turned worse on Wednesday with scores of flights cancelled and delayed from throughout airports within the nation,” the supply stated.
OTP sinks sharply
IndiGo on-time efficiency from six key home airports plummeted to 35 per cent on Tuesday whereas Air India clocked 67.2 per cent, Air India Categorical 79.5 per cent, SpiceJet 82.50 per cent and Akasa Air 73.20 per cent, in accordance with the Civil Aviation Ministry web site.
The most recent flight responsibility time limitation norms, which entail elevated weekly relaxation durations to 48 hours, extension of evening hours, and limiting the variety of evening landings to solely two as towards six earlier have been initially opposed by the home airways, together with IndiGo and Tata Group-owned Air India.
However they have been subsequently rolled out by the DGCA following the Delhi Excessive Court docket’s directives, albeit after a delay of over one yr and in a phased method and with sure variations to airways like IndiGo and Air India.
The FDTL shift
Whereas the primary section of those FDTL norms got here into drive from July, the second section, which restricted the evening touchdown to 2 from six earlier, was carried out from November 1.
The norms have been initially to be put in place from March 2024 however airways together with IndiGo sought a step-by-step implementation, citing further crew necessities.
Operational scale
The Gurugram-based airline at present operates round 2,100 home and worldwide flights and a big chunk of them into evening.
As on December 2, IndiGo had a complete of 416 planes within the fleet with 366 of them in operations and 50 on floor, up from 47 final month, as per plane fleet monitoring web site Planespotter.com.
Printed on December 3, 2025
