{"id":655119,"date":"2025-12-04T11:02:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T05:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=655119"},"modified":"2025-12-04T11:02:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T05:32:17","slug":"remember-when-indigo-claimed-it-was-on-time-every-time-not-anymore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/remember-when-indigo-claimed-it-was-on-time-every-time-not-anymore\/","title":{"rendered":"Remember when IndiGo claimed it was \u2018On Time, Every Time\u2019? Not anymore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IndiGo has slipped on on-time performance\u2014its once-wonted performance metric\u2014 like never before, recording just 35% of its flights on time on 2 December 2025, a Tuesday. Tuesdays are typically the lowest load factor (passenger occupancy) days in a week, and though there was a slight downtick in total flights as well as passengers, IndiGo\u2019s load factors were north of 90%, according to aviation ministry data, published daily on its website. The airline, which ended October with the best on-time performance among its peers, has been facing challenges with punctuality in recent times.<\/p>\n<p>What exactly caused the on-time performance to fall so badly in the last few weeks?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IndiGo has slipped on on-time performance\u2014its once-wonted performance metric\u2014 like never before, recording just 35% of its flights on time on 2 December 2025, a Tuesday. Tuesdays are typically the lowest load factor (passenger occupancy) days in a week, and though there was a slight downtick in total flights as well as passengers, IndiGo\u2019s load factors were north of 90%, according to aviation ministry data, published daily on its website. The airline, which ended October with the best on-time performance among its peers, has been facing challenges with punctuality in recent times. What exactly caused the on-time performance to fall [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[188,139,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-655119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}