PM Narendra Modi had inaugurated the airport on 28th March. Located in Jewar, the airport has been developed to reduce passenger pressure on Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport.
A British Airways flight from London to Hyderabad faced a security scare on Monday after a bomb threat email. The aircraft landed safely at Rajiv Gandhi International Airport, where authorities conducted thorough baggage and passenger screenings before clearing the flight to depart.
India’s aviation regulator DGCA (Directorate General of Civil Aviation) has suspended four of its officials over the IndiGo flight cancellations fiasco. As per reports,...
IndiGo clarified that the ₹10,000 travel vouchers are an ex-gratia benefit and will be issued over and above the government-mandated compensation of ₹5,000–₹10,000 applicable to passengers whose flights were cancelled within 24 hours of departure.
IndiGo chairman Vikram Singh Mehta denied that the airline deliberately caused flight disruptions and confirmed the board’s involvement. He blamed a mix of new crew rest rules and other challenges, assuring passengers that corrective actions are underway to prevent future issues.
It is reasonable to argue that the core of this disaster is IndiGo's internal miscalculations, especially with regard to crew planning and rostering. However, tracing how we got to the point where one airline's error could paralyze the network is as fair and politically significant.
Hundreds of flights were cancelled by IndiGo over the past few days, and many other flights faced delays of several hours, leavings passengers stranded at airports.
In response to the escalating operational crisis at IndiGo, India's largest domestic carrier, the Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA) has issued two critical directives...
As large number of IndiGo flights continued to be cancelled after the implementation of new fatigue-management rules for crew issued by the Directorate General of...