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IndiGo pilot taken off roster after woman claims he threatened her with jail

Union minister Hardeep Singh Puri responded to a woman's tweet in which she claimed the IndiGo pilot had misbehaved after she requested a wheelchair for her 75-year-old mother.

DGCA extends IndiGo’s deadline to replace all unmodified Pratt & Whitney engines on A320neo

The DGCA had earlier warned IndiGo it would ground its A320neo fleet if the Pratt & Whitney engines were not replaced by 31 January. The deadline has been extended till 31 May.

Heavy fog in Delhi delays 530 flights, causes 20 diversions, 4 cancelled

Visibility was low and air pollution levels high in the national capital as the minimum temperature recorded 2.6 degrees Celsius Monday morning.

IndiGo tells pilots to stop pushing A320neo engines to the limit to prevent shutdowns

IndiGo made the switch after DGCA found in a probe that full-thrust climbs could wear down the engines and probably contributed to its shutdowns.

IndiGo’s runaway growth will be stalled by DGCA order to ground Airbus A320neos

The DGCA order essentially prevents IndiGo from adding new routes or increasing frequencies until the A320neo engine issues are fixed.

Qatar Airways partners with IndiGo to tap into India’s aviation market

Qatar Airways has been looking to expand in India, but plans to start a new carrier have been scrambled by rules on foreign ownership.

Airbus close to sealing 300-plane order with IndiGo in one of its biggest deals ever

The purchase would help widen IndiGo's lead in India, the world’s fastest-growing major aviation market.

IndiGo operator InterGlobe Aviation reports biggest ever quarterly loss

The loss shows that even airlines like IndiGo, which is India's most lucrative domestic carrier, isn't immune. The loss was driven by foreign-exchange losses and a re-assessment of future costs.

DGCA has suspended 74 pilots in 8 months, nearly half of them for failing alcohol test

41 pilots were grounded for accidents endangering safety of aircraft and passengers, and 33 suspended for failing breathalyser test.

YV Reddy’s ‘big picture’ on sovereign bonds, and professor unveils women’s Congress ‘bias’

The best of the day’s opinion, chosen and curated by ThePrint’s top editors.

On Camera

Azad, Antony, Geetha—6 candidates to watch in 2024. Their win can reshape politics in states

While Chandra Shekhar Azad is a streetfighter who has caught the fancy of Dalit youth, Anil Antony is the face of the BJP’s fresh social engineering attempt.

Air India reduces baggage allowance by 5-15 kg, bringing it in line with rest of industry

Air India’s new policy, effective from 2 May, introduces new weight limits for tickets in each of the different 'fare families' — Comfort, Comfort Plus, and Flex.

China builds road through Shaksgam Valley, India registers protest

New Delhi has, in past, too, objected to Chinese construction activities in Shaksgam Valley. Work in this strategic region gathered pace after the 2017 Doklam stand-off.

Frontrunner is letting the challenger define this poll campaign. Modi still hasn’t found a big theme

A theme has not yet emerged for BJP & people see lack of a contest, which makes it unexciting. For all these reasons, 2024 is turning out to be an unexpectedly theme-less election.