The IndiGo crisis shows it's time to empower the DGCA as an independent statutorily approved regulator and not just as an attached office of the civil aviation ministry.
New Delhi: IndiGo is experiencing significant flight disruptions, resulting in hundreds of cancellations and over 800 pieces of stranded baggage across 45 destinations. The...
Amid continued flight disruptions, the DGCA has granted IndiGo's CEO a one-time 24-hour extension to submit their response to the Show Cause Notice issued 6 December.
The aviation regulator stated that the 'primary cause' of the disruptions was IndiGo's failure to make 'adequate arrangements' following large-scale operational disruptions.
Apart from questioning IndiGo, this is the moment to ask why policy and regulation allowed one business model to hold regulators, passengers and the exchequer hostage.
Aviation regulatory has withdrawn its instructions prohibiting substitution of leave for weekly rest for airline crew amid countrywide airline operational disruptions.
IndiGo told DGCA that it misjudged crew requirements under the new FDTL rules, resulting in shortages, especially during night-time operations where most available slots now fall.
On Thursday, India’s largest airline cancelled at least 175 flights, leaving passengers at major airports in New Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Pune and Bengaluru angry and upset.
The video captured the alienation between urban India and nature. To those who see air as something that needs to be purified, the sight of thick white mist feels suspicious.
Clean energy is “no longer the sideshow, it is the show”, BVR Subrahmanyam told the Odisha summit, warning India to lead the global shift or risk others’ tech dominance.
Dubai airshow crash & pilot death have rekindled concerns over pilot safety, and need for smarter automated systems that can step in when G-forces, temporary loss of consciousness hit the pilot.
None of Pakistan’s PMs has lasted 5 years. That the current PM has given Asim Munir 5 years shows that of all military dictatorships history has seen, Pakistan’s is most creative.
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