{"id":655627,"date":"2025-12-06T10:58:26","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T05:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=655627"},"modified":"2025-12-06T10:58:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T05:28:26","slug":"indigo-crisis-deepens-at-8-5-airlines-on-time-performance-hits-record-low-on-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indigo-crisis-deepens-at-8-5-airlines-on-time-performance-hits-record-low-on-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"IndiGo crisis deepens: At 8.5%, airline&#8217;s on-time performance hits record low on Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IndiGo\u2019s operational troubles worsened on Friday, with its on-time performance across six major metro airports plunging to 8.5%, as per the Civil Aviation Ministry\u2019s published data. This collapse added to a disruption now stretching into its fourth consecutive day. Sources quoted by PTI said the airline halted all departures from Chennai until 6 pm, while flights from Delhi Airport were suspended until midnight.<\/p>\n<p>IndiGo, which has long projected punctuality as one of its defining strengths, saw its on-time performance plunge to 19.7% on Wednesday, down sharply from 35% on Tuesday, signalling a deepening operational crisis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IndiGo\u2019s operational troubles worsened on Friday, with its on-time performance across six major metro airports plunging to 8.5%, as per the Civil Aviation Ministry\u2019s published data. This collapse added to a disruption now stretching into its fourth consecutive day. Sources quoted by PTI said the airline halted all departures from Chennai until 6 pm, while flights from Delhi Airport were suspended until midnight. IndiGo, which has long projected punctuality as one of its defining strengths, saw its on-time performance plunge to 19.7% on Wednesday, down sharply from 35% on Tuesday, signalling a deepening operational crisis.<\/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-655627","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\/655627","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=655627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}