IndiGo to inform if it can fly 2k flights daily

NEW DELHI: As IndiGo’s exemption from the new safety-enhancing flight duty rules for A320 fleet pilots expires Feb 10, the airline must tell DGCA this week, likely Monday, whether it can still run more than 2,000 flights a day under the new rules that increase pilot requirement, reports Saurabh Sinha.

If it cannot, authorities are expected to step in and cut flights in time to avert a repeat of last December’s chaos, for which the DGCA fined the airline Rs 22.2cr, an amount pilots’ body has dismissed as “peanuts”, saying the regulator counted only three days of disruption when the turmoil lasted far longer.