{"id":655448,"date":"2025-12-05T11:57:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T06:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=655448"},"modified":"2025-12-05T11:57:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T06:27:19","slug":"end-to-indigo-chaos-soon-dgca-likely-to-grant-partial-waiver-on-new-pilot-rest-rules-airline-to-submit-mitigation-plan-as-cancellations-mount","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/end-to-indigo-chaos-soon-dgca-likely-to-grant-partial-waiver-on-new-pilot-rest-rules-airline-to-submit-mitigation-plan-as-cancellations-mount\/","title":{"rendered":"End to IndiGo chaos soon? DGCA likely to grant partial waiver on new pilot rest rules; airline to submit mitigation plan as cancellations mount"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s aviation regulator, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), is expected to give IndiGo a temporary, partial waiver from the recently implemented pilot rest and duty rules after the airline was forced to cancel more than a thousand flights in the coming days due to a severe pilot shortage.<\/p>\n<p>IndiGo, which commands over 60% of the domestic market, has slipped into one of its worst operational crises after the rollout of the revised Flight Duty Time Limitations (FDTL) left it without sufficient crew.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s aviation regulator, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), is expected to give IndiGo a temporary, partial waiver from the recently implemented pilot rest and duty rules after the airline was forced to cancel more than a thousand flights in the coming days due to a severe pilot shortage. IndiGo, which commands over 60% of the domestic market, has slipped into one of its worst operational crises after the rollout of the revised Flight Duty Time Limitations (FDTL) left it without sufficient crew.<\/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":[220,130,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-655448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655448","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=655448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}