IndiGo meltdown continued to trigger grave inconvenience to lakhs of passengers who have been left stranded at airports throughout India after their flights have been cancelled. On Tuesday, over 350 flights to and from Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad and Bengaluru airports have been reportedly cancelled. Let’s check out the newest variety of cancellations on 9 December.
Delhi airport: 152 flights cancelled — 76 arrivals and 76 departures
Bengaluru airport: 121 flights cancelled — 58 arrivals and 63 departures
Hyderabad airport: 58 flights cancelled — 14 arrivals and 44 departures
Mumbai airport: 31 flights cancelled — 14 arrivals and 17 departures
IndiGo’s huge flight cancellations continued to trigger chaos at main airports, together with Ahmedabad’s Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Worldwide Airport and Delhi’s Indira Gandhi Worldwide Airport.
Civil Aviation Minister Ram Mohan Naidu Kinjarapu, in a put up on X, mentioned {that a} high-level assessment assembly was held on Monday to conduct a complete evaluation of IndiGo’s operations. On this assessment assembly, all senior officers of the ministry have been instructed to conduct an on-ground inspection of flight operations.
The ministry reportedly issued directives to senior officers to bodily go to Mumbai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Chennai, Ahmedabad, Pune, Guwahati, Goa, and Thiruvananthapuram airports on 9 December to assessment and assess the general scenario.
The Directorate Normal of Civil Aviation (DGCA)’s high-level committee has additionally summoned high IndiGo executives over the large flight cancellations, India Immediately reported. The airline’s executives, together with CEO Pieter Elbers, will meet the four-member panel on 10 December.
In one other growth, the federal government has requested IndiGo to revise its winter schedule. The DGCA directed the airline to amend its deliberate schedule and “submit a revised schedule by 5 PM on 10 December 2025”. Amid flight disruptions and delays for the eighth day in a row, the aviation watchdog requested the airline to scale back 5% of flight operations as a penalty for not working deliberate schedules.
The operational disaster on the nation’s largest airline prompted the federal government to provoke an inquiry. In an interview with DD Information, Minister Naidu alleged that the difficulty affecting IndiGo passengers was not due to the Plane Upkeep and Scheduling System (AMSS) however was as a substitute linked to the airline’s inner crew rostering and operational planning.
Winter session of Parliament discusses IndiGo meltdown
Throughout an handle to the Winter session of Parliament on Tuesday, Ram Mohan Naidu mentioned that strict and acceptable motion shall be taken in opposition to the airline in accordance with the governing guidelines. Talking in regards to the IndiGo fiasco, the minister mentioned, “No airline, nevertheless massive, shall be permitted to trigger such hardship to passengers by planning failures, non-compliance.”
Informing the Decrease Home that the DGCA issued show-cause notices to IndiGo’s senior management and commenced an in depth investigation, he added, “IndiGo disruptions are stabilising; all different airways proceed to function easily throughout the nation. Airports throughout the nation are reporting regular circumstances, with no crowding or misery. Refunds, baggage tracing and passenger help measures stay underneath the supervision of the ministry,” ANI reported.
The federal government instructed airways to cap air fares after ticket costs rose sharply following IndiGo’s huge cancellations. “Airfare has been capped at ₹18,000. It begins from ₹7500 for as much as 500 kilometres, and past 1,500 kilometres, it’s ₹18,000,” a senior official instructed ANI.
(With inputs from companies)
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