Numbers presented in the Lok Sabha on December 8 highlight just why the airline was unable to meet the new flight duty timing limits, mooted in January 2024

Weeks after the country’s aviation regulator approved a 6% increase in flights for IndiGo, as part of the airline’s winter schedule, the ministry of civil aviation said there would be a 10% reduction instead, a consequence of the inability of India’s largest carrier to meet new flight rostering norms that saw it cancelling more than 5,500 flights in the first nine days of December.

Numbers presented in the Lok Sabha on December 8 highlight just why the airline was unable to meet the new flight duty timing limits, first mooted in January 2024 , although the airlines got enough time to prepare with some of the norms coming into effect

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