IndiGo flight chaos: How could shortage of just 124 pilots lead to such havoc?

KOLKATA: IndiGo Airlines pilots have alleged that the flight cancellation and delay crisis that brought India’s aviation sector to a standstill was engineered to undermine the implementation of new safety norms and pressure govt into putting the revised Flight Duty Time Limitation (FDTL) rules in abeyance.

They questioned how a shortage of just 65 captains and 59 co-pilots following the rollout of the revised FDTL norms could have led to the cancellation or delay of thousands of flights.