{"id":16815,"date":"2025-12-04T19:48:41","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T11:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=16815"},"modified":"2025-12-04T19:48:41","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T11:48:41","slug":"airport-chaos-in-india-after-indigo-cancels-1200-flights-stranding-thousands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=16815","title":{"rendered":"Airport chaos in India, after IndiGo cancels 1,200 flights, stranding thousands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2025\/12\/04\/ff30211d-9391-4c6b-9dc0-7a6faec86f08_f21a33b7.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Chaos gripped Indian airports on Thursday after the country\u2019s largest airline IndiGo cancelled more than 1,200 flights, stranding thousands of passengers.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The company blamed the disruption on \u201cunforeseen operational challenges\u201d including technical glitches, adverse weather and new rules for workers.<\/p>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\"><span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">India<\/span>\u2019s aviation watchdog ordered an investigation and demanded that IndiGo respond with plans to ease the interruptions, which have persisted since Monday.<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Passengers vented their anger online, with one airport user describing \u201ccomplete mayhem\u201d with delays of up to eight hours and \u201cno staff\u201d on hand to help.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Some 1,232 IndiGo flights had been cancelled as of Wednesday, according to the company. The number of delays was not clear.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">IndiGo said it was offering customers alternative travel arrangements and refunds while restoring its services.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/asia\/south-asia\/article\/3335226\/airport-chaos-india-after-indigo-cancels-1200-flights-stranding-thousands?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chaos gripped Indian airports on Thursday after the country\u2019s largest airline IndiGo cancelled more than 1,200 flights, stranding thousands of passengers. The company blamed the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16816,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4840],"tags":[1350,8271,9229,4804,1390,11691,160,8198],"class_list":["post-16815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel-globetrotting","tag-airport","tag-cancels","tag-chaos","tag-flights","tag-india","tag-indigo","tag-stranding","tag-thousands","wpcat-4840-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}