IndiGo’s winter schedule was cut by 10 percent after last week’s operational chaos, but a closer look shows the actual reduction may be far smaller, amounting to only about 2.35 percent of its planned flights.

Before the flight chaos hit India’s biggest airline, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) in its winter schedule allowed IndiGo to conduct 15,014 departures a week till March 28.

The total number of flights curtailed, at least on paper, comes to a little over 24,000 but the actual impact of the cutback would be around 5,600 flights, calculations show.

IndiGo had approval for 2,145 flights a day in the winter schedule but its average domestic daily departures did not exceed 2,000 even once in the past 12 months.

In October and November, the number stood at 1,980 and 1,

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