IndiGo’s worst operational crisis in years escalated further on Thursday, with Chief Executive Officer Pieter Elbers pulled into back-to-back meetings with aviation watchdog and now ordered to appear before a four-member DGCA committee on Friday. Also, the airline rolled out compensation ranging from Rs 5,000 to Rs 10,000 for cancelled flights and Rs 10,000 travel vouchers for passengers stranded in the chaos.

The back-to-back summons came even as IndiGo briefed senior officials in a nearly two-hour, closed-door meeting on how the airline planned to stabilise operations after days of delays, baggage pile-ups and widespread cancellations. Officials were told that “IndiGo had deliberately throttled its network down to just over 1,950 flights a day, a trimmed schedule designed to ensure it c

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