Shares of InterGlobe Aviation ended nearly 1 per cent lower on Thursday after the Competition Commission ordered a detailed probe against IndiGo for unfair business practices. The stock dropped 3.65 per cent to Rs 4,782.45 during the day on the BSE. It later trimmed most of the early losses and ended at Rs 4,933.95, down […]
IndiGo aims to have 40% international flights by the turn of this decade, even as India’s largest airline by passengers carried grapples with a crisis at home. “We are a fit for purpose airline,” IndiGo CEO Pieter Elbers says. (Reuters) The airline operated by InterGlobe Aviation Ltd. aims to carry 20 crore people on more […]
New Delhi: India’s aviation regulator told the Delhi high court on Thursday that it had issued warnings to IndiGo’s senior executives, including the chief operating officer and director, and ordered the dismissal of a senior vice-president from service for operational disruptions that left passengers stranded at airports nationwide. The court also asked the airline to […]
NEW DELHI: India’s aviation regulator on Saturday imposed a record ₹22.2 crore penalty on IndiGo and issued warnings to six senior executives, including the chief operating officer, after its inquiry found the airline’s “overriding focus on maximising utilisation” of crew and aircraft through aggressive cost-cutting drove December’s operational meltdown that stranded over 300,000 passengers. Stranded […]
IndiGo has announced pilot salary hikes across duty types, less than a month after a crucial change in roster norms crippled operations of India’s largest airline. The changes are effective 1 January 2026. An IndiGo aircraft. (Reuters) The airline operated by InterGlobe Aviation Ltd. has announced revised pilot salary for domestic layovers, deadhead, overnight flights […]
The government has approved two new airlines after the IndiGo flight crisis brought aviation to a virtual standstill in India. Union Minister of Civil Aviation Kinjarapu Ram Mohan Naidu. (ANI) Al Hind Air and FlyExpress have received no objection certificates from the civil aviation ministry to start operations, Minister Kinjarapu Ram Mohan Naidu wrote on […]
Shares of InterGlobe Aviation Ltd. are in focus today after the Competition Commission of India said it was reviewing allegations of anti-trust violations by IndiGo following mass flight cancellations earlier in December. In the first week of December, IndiGo cancelled about 4,500 flights due to poor pilot roster planning. (Reuters) The CCI has “taken cognizance […]
IndiGo has emerged as India’s largest international airline in terms of air traffic amid a flights crisis that’s scuppered its domestic operations. IndiGo has emerged as India’s No.1 international airline because Air India has reduced its international flights following the plane crash in Ahmedabad in June 2025. (HT) The airline operated by InterGlobe Aviation Ltd. […]
As the IndiGo flight status, or lack thereof, unravelled at India’s airports and share price went into tailspin, the civil aviation minister called for airlines in the world’s fastest growing aviation market. Passengers at the IndiGo counter after several flights were cancelled at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport in Mumbai, on 5 December 2025. […]
The central government recently enacted the Flight Duty Time Limitation (FDTL) norms in the airline industry. The rules seek to address the issue of pilot fatigue through increased rest time and reduced landing in the night hours. At the peak of the disruptions on 5 December, IndiGo cancelled 1,588 flights, or about 79% of its […]