{"id":655470,"date":"2025-12-05T12:17:31","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T06:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=655470"},"modified":"2025-12-05T12:51:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T07:21:04","slug":"over-300-indigo-flights-cancelled-ceo-blames-accumulation-of-issues-in-internal-email","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/over-300-indigo-flights-cancelled-ceo-blames-accumulation-of-issues-in-internal-email\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 300 IndiGo flights cancelled, CEO blames \u2018accumulation\u2019 of issues in internal email"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IndiGo has blamed \u201can accumulation of several operational challenges\u201d for over 300 of its flights getting cancelled and many delayed over the past two days. In an internal email to employees, seen by HT, Indigo CEO Pieter Elbers listed \u201cminor technology glitches, schedule changes, adverse weather conditions, heightened congestion in the aviation ecosystem, and the implementation of the newly released FDTL norms\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Implementation of new Flight Duty Time Limit (FDTL) norms for pilots from November 1 hit many flights, resulting in dozens of cancellations, despite airlines having enough time to plan for a change originally expected to kick in on June 1, 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IndiGo has blamed \u201can accumulation of several operational challenges\u201d for over 300 of its flights getting cancelled and many delayed over the past two days. In an internal email to employees, seen by HT, Indigo CEO Pieter Elbers listed \u201cminor technology glitches, schedule changes, adverse weather conditions, heightened congestion in the aviation ecosystem, and the implementation of the newly released FDTL norms\u201d. Implementation of new Flight Duty Time Limit (FDTL) norms for pilots from November 1 hit many flights, resulting in dozens of cancellations, despite airlines having enough time to plan for a change originally expected to kick in on [&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":[184,141,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-655470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-hindustantimes","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655470","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=655470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}