{"id":655861,"date":"2025-12-09T08:39:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T03:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=655861"},"modified":"2025-12-09T09:44:55","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T04:14:55","slug":"indigo-how-indias-top-airline-unraveled-in-quest-for-higher-profit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indigo-how-indias-top-airline-unraveled-in-quest-for-higher-profit\/","title":{"rendered":"IndiGo: How India\u2019s top airline unraveled in quest for higher profit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the evening of Dec. 2, just three days before India\u2019s largest airline would lose control of its operations, IndiGo executives spotted a technology glitch that was delaying late-night check-ins \u2014 a small failure that would soon cascade into one of the worst aviation disruptions in the country\u2019s history. <\/p>\n<p>The problem, in turn, was affecting a pilot duty roster recently fine-tuned to incorporate new government rules mandating longer rest hours and fewer night landings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the evening of Dec. 2, just three days before India\u2019s largest airline would lose control of its operations, IndiGo executives spotted a technology glitch that was delaying late-night check-ins \u2014 a small failure that would soon cascade into one of the worst aviation disruptions in the country\u2019s history. The problem, in turn, was affecting a pilot duty roster recently fine-tuned to incorporate new government rules mandating longer rest hours and fewer night landings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,130,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-655861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655861","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}