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.
New Delhi: IndiGo canceled more than 400 flights across India on Friday amid pilot shortages, stranding thousands of passengers from New Delhi to Mumbai...
MakeMyTrip lists show sharp spikes for flights from Delhi to state capitals & major metros, with same-day non-stop fares reaching nearly double prices available on nearby dates.
Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Priyanka Chaturvedi also moves a notice in Rajya Sabha, requesting the civil aviation minister to make a statement on the disruption of IndiGo flight operations.
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.
Resumption of direct commercial flights between India and China began in phases last month. IndiGo restarted daily flights between Kolkata & Guangzhou on 26 October.
The first flight, after the long hiatus, IndiGo 6E1703, carrying 176 passengers, took off from Kolkata's airport to Guangzhou Baiyun International airport.
The passenger allegedly demanded that the crew allow him to leave the aircraft so that he could smoke. When denied, he began asking fellow passengers to chant 'Har Har Mahadev.'
The underlying issue is that there hasn’t been enough of a structural change in the economy since the launch of reforms in 1990-91, despite per capita incomes multiplying nearly five-fold.
As Visakhapatnam readies a mega airport, the Andhra Pradesh government has revived its shelved Dagadarthi project, aiming to boost cargo and connectivity on the south coast.
Both the Russian and Ukrainian militaries are leaning on drones, but they’re also firing cruise and ballistic missiles, some of them relatively new and experimental.
UK, EFTA already in the bag and EU on the way, many members of RCEP except China signed up, and even restrictions on China being lifted, India has changed its mind on trade.
Agree that the agency that approves additional routes/schedules should be monitoring the new guidelines. Needing more staff and pilots is not something that can be bought in a super market. IndiGo should have alerted the authorities. Authorities did not fulfil their responsibility in monitoring and alerting to possible issues from their regulations. Press is at fault as well, that no one analyzed the potential disruptions. Indian Press needs more watchful staff, rather than just the morning-after analyses.
This is a very outrageous take on regulator “allowing” an airline to grow disproportionately ! In fact, a fallacious take ! There are too big to fail enterprises in every sector in India and more so in several other capitalist economies ! The day a regulator starts to poke its nose to “ensure” firms do not grow beyond a certain point is the day when we start causing nervousness in the business environment of a country. This episode speaks more about mismanagement than about too big to fail. Was there any mechanism in place to regularly track how airlines were handling their roster scheduling after Nov 1 directive is the question to be asked. If not, there should be one in future to ensure these kinds of firms do not make a mess of their dominant position. One must also keep in mind that this is the same airline which has consistently shown great on time performance across a decade. There are lessons to be learnt here but surely not the one the writer of this article propounds. Do not use a sledgehammer to crack the nut.
Agree that the agency that approves additional routes/schedules should be monitoring the new guidelines. Needing more staff and pilots is not something that can be bought in a super market. IndiGo should have alerted the authorities. Authorities did not fulfil their responsibility in monitoring and alerting to possible issues from their regulations. Press is at fault as well, that no one analyzed the potential disruptions. Indian Press needs more watchful staff, rather than just the morning-after analyses.
This is a very outrageous take on regulator “allowing” an airline to grow disproportionately ! In fact, a fallacious take ! There are too big to fail enterprises in every sector in India and more so in several other capitalist economies ! The day a regulator starts to poke its nose to “ensure” firms do not grow beyond a certain point is the day when we start causing nervousness in the business environment of a country. This episode speaks more about mismanagement than about too big to fail. Was there any mechanism in place to regularly track how airlines were handling their roster scheduling after Nov 1 directive is the question to be asked. If not, there should be one in future to ensure these kinds of firms do not make a mess of their dominant position. One must also keep in mind that this is the same airline which has consistently shown great on time performance across a decade. There are lessons to be learnt here but surely not the one the writer of this article propounds. Do not use a sledgehammer to crack the nut.