In a major operation failure, IndiGo cancels 70 flights due to a combination of technical problems, congestion in the airports, and acute shortages of crews. All vital airports such as Mumbai and Bengaluru were not spared and left thousands of passengers stranded. The situation has been aggravated by the fact that, according to the officials, new Flight Duty Time Limitation (FDTL) standards that are implemented by the aviation regulator DGCA have drastically decreased the number of pilots. As the on-time delivery performance declined to alarming levels, the crisis reveals the underlying stress in the fast-growing aviation industry of India. It […]
