The Union government on Tuesday ordered IndiGo to cut its scheduled flights by 10% to stabilise the airline’s operations.

This means 400 to 500 IndiGo flights will be cancelled, The Hindu quoted an unidentified executive of the airline as saying.

The curtailed operations will also lead to reduced cancellations of IndiGo flights, the Ministry of Civil Aviation said.

The airline has been instructed to comply with all the directives of the ministry, including the capping of fares and measures to ensure convenience of passengers “without any exception”, the government said.

The ministry’s decision doubled the 5% curtailment of operations that the Directorate General of Civil Aviation had ordered on Tuesday. The regulator had asked the airline to make the cuts “especially on h

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