Mumbai: The country’s largest domestic airline, IndiGo, on Thursday said the airline has been forced to make a substantial number of cancellations and diversions of its flights to and from Mumbai airport due to closure of the main runway since 1 July.
“As aircraft and crew rotations go through the whole country, there was a ripple effect throughout the system which caused delays not only in Mumbai but also in other parts of the country and also affected some international flights,” the airline said in a statement.
“The effect was that aircraft had to be diverted to different places due to the ongoing Mumbai main runway closure and needed to be recovered to put it in the right rotational sequence. This has led to a situation where flight duty time of the operating crew becomes a limiting factor. Flight duty times are a mandatory requirement with zero tolerance which IndiGo is adhering to,” it added.
