Over 100 IndiGo Flights Cancelled As Major Disruptions Hit Delhi, Mumbai, Other Key Airports

Final Up to date:December 03, 2025, 23:57 IST

In a press release, IndiGo apologised for the widespread inconvenience and mentioned its groups have been working to revive regular operations swiftly

Authorities information confirmed that solely 35% of IndiGo’s flights have been on time on December 2, and 49.5% have been on time on December 1.

IndiGo Flight Cancellations: IndiGo is witnessing huge flight delays and cancellations attributable to know-how points, airport congestion, and operational necessities. The disruption has left hundreds of passengers stranded at airports.

On Wednesday, a number of airports, together with Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Ahmedabad reported over 100 flight cancellations until the afternoon. In accordance with information company PTI, a minimum of 33 flights have been cancelled at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi Worldwide Airport, whereas over 51 flights have been cancelled from Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Worldwide Airport.

Moreover, as many as 19 IndiGo flights, each arrivals and departures, have been cancelled in Hyderabad. IndiGo arrivals from Visakhapatnam, Goa, Ahmedabad, Delhi, Bengaluru, Chennai, Madurai, Hubli, Bhopal and Bhubaneswar to Hyderabad have been cancelled at present, together with outbound flights to Delhi, Bengaluru, Bhubaneswar, Hubli and Bhopal. Additional, 14 flights, 7 arrivals and seven departures have been cancelled at Ahmedabad airport.

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Bengaluru’s Kempegowda Worldwide Airport additionally noticed flight disruptions. No less than 42 home flights have been cancelled on Wednesday, together with 22 arrivals and 20 departures. Providers connecting Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad, Goa, Kolkata and Lucknow have been amongst these affected.

The cascading disruptions additionally replicate the airline’s latest struggles with punctuality. Authorities information confirmed that solely 35% of IndiGo flights have been on time on December 2, and 49.5% operated on time on December 1.

IndiGo Points Assertion

In a press release, the airline acknowledged that its operations had been “considerably disrupted throughout the community for the previous two days” and issued an apology to passengers.

“A mess of unexpected operational challenges together with minor know-how glitches, schedule modifications linked to the winter season, antagonistic climate situations, elevated congestion within the aviation system and the implementation of up to date crew rostering guidelines (Flight Obligation Time Limitations) had a detrimental compounding affect on our operations in a method that was not possible to be anticipated,” an IndiGo spokesperson mentioned as acknowledged within the assertion.

To stabilise operations, the airline mentioned it has begun calibrated changes to its flight schedules, a brief measure anticipated to stay in place for the following 48 hours. The changes, it mentioned, will assist restore punctuality and restrict additional disruptions.

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“Our groups are working across the clock to ease buyer discomfort… affected clients are being supplied alternate journey preparations or refunds, as relevant,” the spokesperson added.

IndiGo has urged passengers to examine flight standing on-line earlier than heading to the airport, as terminals in a number of cities stay crowded with stranded travellers in search of rebooking and help.

Crew Scarcity After New Obligation Norms

The airline is going through a extreme pilot scarcity ever for the reason that new flight obligation time limitation (FDTL) norms turned relevant final month, which lay out extra humane rostering for crew.

“IndiGo has been going through acute crew scarcity for the reason that implementation of the second part of the FDTL norms, resulting in cancellations and big delays in its operations throughout the airports,” a supply instructed PTI.

The newest flight obligation time limitation norms, which entail elevated weekly relaxation durations to 48 hours, extension of evening hours, and limiting the variety of evening landings to solely two as in opposition to six earlier, have been initially opposed by IndiGo and Air India.

However they have been subsequently rolled out by the DGCA following the Delhi Excessive Court docket’s directives, albeit after a delay of over one yr and in a phased method and with sure variations to airways.

Pilots’ Federation Says Chaos Not Linked To FDTL Norms

In the meantime, the Federation of Indian Pilots (FIP) has mentioned that the latest wave of IndiGo flight cancellations has no connection to the FTDL norms.

In accordance with the federation, all different airways have tailored easily to the revised FDTL norms by planning upfront and provisioning ample pilots, whereas IndiGo alone is going through acute disruptions attributable to what FIP calls “years of unorthodox lean manpower practices.”

“Regardless of the two-year preparatory window earlier than full FDTL implementation, the airline inexplicably adopted a hiring freeze, entered non-poaching preparations, maintained a pilot pay freeze by way of cartel-like conduct, and demonstrated different short-sighted planning practices,” the FIP mentioned in a press release.

The pilot physique added that IndiGo executives took residence “report increments approaching or exceeding 100%,” at the same time as pilot morale dipped considerably.

The federation famous that after Section 1 of the FDTL rollout on July 1, 2025, IndiGo reduce down pilot depart quotas, and following Section 2 on November 1, tried to purchase again depart — measures that did not garner help from pilots and additional strained office sentiment. These issues, FIP mentioned, have been compounded by the onset of the winter fog season, a interval that naturally requires larger pilot availability. Regardless of this, IndiGo expanded its winter schedule with out recruiting or coaching further crew.

The Gurugram-based airline at the moment operates round 2,100 home and worldwide flights and a big chunk of them at evening.

As of December 2, IndiGo had a complete of 416 planes within the fleet with 366 of them in operations and 50 on floor, up from 47 final month.

(With inputs from companies)

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