IndiGo Flight Operations Slowly Getting Back On Track After Days Of Chaos | Key Updates

IndiGo flight cancellations: Domestic carrier IndiGo on Saturday said it operated only 700 flights on Friday against its usual number of 2,300, suggesting 1,600 cancellations during the day.

The airline had said it had cancelled “over 1,000 flights” on Friday, when IndiGo CEO Pieter Elbers, after maintaining a stoic silence on the crisis for three days, finally acknowledged that it was cancelling flights in big numbers.

Besides cancelling a record number of flights in a day by any Indian carrier in the country’s aviation history, IndiGo’s on-time performance hit rock bottom at 3.7 per cent on Friday, triggered by disruption in operations amid the transition to the second phase of new flight duty and rest period norms for pilots, as per the Civil Aviation Ministry website.