IndiGo cancels Dec 5 domestic flights from New Delhi airport
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IndiGo plans to reduce its flight schedule starting Dec 8 to ease the disruption triggered by new rules that limit pilots’ duty hours.
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NEW DELHI – IndiGo has cancelled all domestic flights from the New Delhi airport till midnight local time on Dec 5 as India’s largest airline continues to reel from disruption linked to new pilot rest rules and recent technology glitches.
The step by the no-frills carrier, which has a nearly 66 per cent market share of local skies, was announced in a post on X by the airport’s operator. Operations of all other carriers remain as scheduled, it added.
Shares of InterGlobe Aviation, which operates IndiGo, slipped as much as 3.1 per cent on Dec 5 in Mumbai as the chaos in its flight schedule dragged for a fourth day.
IndiGo plans to reduce its flight schedule from Dec 8 to ease the disruption triggered by the new rules, which limit pilots’ duty hours, India’s aviation regulator said after the country’s largest airline cancelled more than 300 departures on Dec 4.
Cabin crew shortages, combined with winter operational constraints, led to the increase in cancellations, the regulator said the day before. BLOOMBERG
