{"id":655818,"date":"2025-12-08T12:13:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T06:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=655818"},"modified":"2025-12-08T12:13:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T06:43:21","slug":"indigo-flight-chaos-how-could-shortage-of-just-124-pilots-lead-to-such-havoc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indigo-flight-chaos-how-could-shortage-of-just-124-pilots-lead-to-such-havoc\/","title":{"rendered":"IndiGo flight chaos: How could shortage of just 124 pilots lead to such havoc?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KOLKATA: IndiGo Airlines pilots have alleged that the flight cancellation and delay crisis that brought India\u2019s aviation sector to a standstill was engineered to undermine the implementation of new safety norms and pressure govt into putting the revised Flight Duty Time Limitation (FDTL) rules in abeyance.<\/p>\n<p>They questioned how a shortage of just 65 captains and 59 co-pilots following the rollout of the revised FDTL norms could have led to the cancellation or delay of thousands of flights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KOLKATA: IndiGo Airlines pilots have alleged that the flight cancellation and delay crisis that brought India\u2019s aviation sector to a standstill was engineered to undermine the implementation of new safety norms and pressure govt into putting the revised Flight Duty Time Limitation (FDTL) rules in abeyance. They questioned how a shortage of just 65 captains and 59 co-pilots following the rollout of the revised FDTL norms could have led to the cancellation or delay of thousands of flights.<\/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-655818","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\/655818","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=655818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}