IndiGo announces pilot salary hikes across duty types after a flight crisis| Business News

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 […]

India approves three new airlines amid IndiGo crisis that crippled local aviation| Business News

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 […]

IndiGo share price in focus as it faces CCI probe after mass flight cancellations| Business News

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 emerges India’s largest international airline amid flight crisis at home| Business News

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. […]

India needs more airlines, but that’s easier said than done| Business News

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. […]

View | Flight disruptions: Why the key lies in promoting competition in the airline industry

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 […]

IndiGo told to cut flights amid cancellations. What does that mean for the passenger?| Business News

The government has directed IndiGo to cut planned flights by 5% amid rampant cancellations, even as India’s largest airline by passengers carried limps back to normalcy—in fits and starts. A sign of things to come? A lone passenger stands at a IndiGo ticket counter at Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi on Tuesday (9 […]

View | First Air India, now IndiGo — India’s aviation crisis is all about ‘too big to tame’

India’s latest aviation fiasco—about 3,000 flights cancelled since last week—has exposed the ill effects of leaving two-thirds of a fast-growing market in the hands of a single player and allowing it to become not just too big to fail, but also too big to tame. A passenger waits outside the IndiGo Airlines kiosk at the […]

IndiGo stares at ‘significant’ financial damage due to flight crisis, Moody’s says| Business News

IndiGo is staring at “significant” financial damage due to the ongoing crisis stemming from rampant flight cancellations, Moody’s Ratings said, thereby raising questions on the “too big to fail” status of India’s largest airline by passengers carried. IndiGo’s rampant flight cancellations raises questions on the “too big to fail” status of India’s largest airline by […]

IndiGo shares crash as much as 6.63% after CEO asked to explain flight cancellations| Business News

Shares of InterGlobe Aviation Ltd. fell the most in eight months after India’s civil aviation regulator called on the chief executive to explain the flight cancellations that have roiled India’s largest airline. A passenger waits outside the IndiGo Airlines kiosk at the Kempegowda International Airport in Bengaluru on 6 December. (AFP) IndiGo’s share price fell […]