India’s biggest airline by market share, IndiGo, which is reeling from record cancellations of flights due to a shortage of pilots was on a capacity expansion spree, crossing over 2,300 daily flights in November this year, almost at the same time as the flight duty time limitation (FDTL) rules for pilots came into effect. But it had the lowest addition of pilot strength in FY25 since FY20. Advertisement

The cancellation of flights has thrown the aviation industry into chaos, with passengers being stranded at airports, unable to reschedule their travel.

IndiGo’s pilot strength addition in FY25 was 418, taking the total to 5,456 pilots against 631 in FY24, with a total pilot strength of 5,038, as per IndiGo’s official data.

While the capacity addition during FY25 was the largest, the pil

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