Civil Aviation Minister Ram Mohan Naidu on Thursday said IndiGo Chairman Vikram Singh Mehta - who issued his first statement a day earlier - had not answered several key questions, including why the airline had not hired new pilots in the last six months. "He does not answer many of the pertinent questions which are still going around," Naidu said while speaking at Agenda AajTak. Advertisement

"For the last six months, why was pilot hiring put on freeze? On 3rd December, let's suppose operations were going for a toss, then why did they not inform the people whose flights were getting cancelled beforehand so that they don't come to airports? Who was managing that?" he asked.

The minister also questioned why IndiGo, despite knowing that cancellations were happening, did not inform flyers

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