{"id":18346,"date":"2025-12-10T12:13:48","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T04:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=18346"},"modified":"2025-12-10T12:13:48","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T04:13:48","slug":"indigo-flight-chaos-exposes-risks-of-indias-aviation-duopoly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=18346","title":{"rendered":"IndiGo flight chaos exposes risks of India\u2019s aviation duopoly"},"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\/09\/2bad68f4-5ed3-4fc3-94e7-3a9f163350d5_632eaab3.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\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 largest airline is experiencing its toughest crisis in years after cancelling thousands of flights amid a severe pilot shortage \u2013 a result of its failure to hire enough staff to meet new government rules designed to combat pilot fatigue.<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Analysts say the turmoil at IndiGo highlights the structural challenges faced by a fast-growing aviation market currently dominated by just two carriers.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">About 3,000 IndiGo flights were cancelled last week, including more than 1,000 on Friday, accounting for nearly half of its typical daily operations. The airline operated 1,800 flights on Tuesday, up from 1,650 the previous day, according to its website.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">India\u2019s Aviation Minister Kinjarapu Rammohan Naidu on Tuesday vowed strict action over the chaos in India\u2019s skies. IndiGo commands about 65 per cent of the domestic market and operates a fleet of 417 aircraft.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Under the revised flight duty rules, India\u2019s Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has extended pilots\u2019 mandatory weekly rest period from 36 hours to 48 and capped their flying hours, particularly for late-night and early-morning slots, limiting pilots to two landings between midnight and dawn each week.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cThe updated requirements were communicated \u2026 to airlines more than a year ago, but apparently the airline [IndiGo] didn\u2019t make the required changes internally in terms of crew planning and flight scheduling,\u201d said Shantanu Gangakhedkar, a senior consultant for aerospace and defence at Frost &amp; Sullivan.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/week-asia\/economics\/article\/3335742\/indigo-flight-chaos-exposes-risks-indias-aviation-duopoly?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s largest airline is experiencing its toughest crisis in years after cancelling thousands of flights amid a severe pilot shortage \u2013 a result of its&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4840],"tags":[243,9229,12316,12314,1153,12315,11691,1124],"class_list":["post-18346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel-globetrotting","tag-aviation","tag-chaos","tag-duopoly","tag-exposes","tag-flight","tag-indias","tag-indigo","tag-risks","wpcat-4840-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18346","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=18346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}