{"id":655869,"date":"2025-12-09T08:30:29","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T03:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=655869"},"modified":"2025-12-09T09:35:58","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T04:05:58","slug":"indigo-crisis-a-warning-of-a-possible-aviation-meltdown-came-months-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indigo-crisis-a-warning-of-a-possible-aviation-meltdown-came-months-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"IndiGo Crisis: A warning of a possible aviation meltdown came months ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: As the IndiGo crisis leaves thousands of passengers stranded across the country, it has emerged that a parliamentary panel had warned by early August that airlines must not be allowed to bypass Flight Duty Time Limitation (FDTL) norms for pilots. <\/p>\n<p>In a report tabled in Parliament, the Standing Committee on Transport, Tourism and Culture cautioned that the aviation sector was approaching a &#8220;critical inflection point&#8221; due to the mismatch between the rapid growth of aircraft fleets and the slower expansion of pilot and air traffic controller (ATC) manpower.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: As the IndiGo crisis leaves thousands of passengers stranded across the country, it has emerged that a parliamentary panel had warned by early August that airlines must not be allowed to bypass Flight Duty Time Limitation (FDTL) norms for pilots. In a report tabled in Parliament, the Standing Committee on Transport, Tourism and Culture cautioned that the aviation sector was approaching a &#8220;critical inflection point&#8221; due to the mismatch between the rapid growth of aircraft fleets and the slower expansion of pilot and air traffic controller (ATC) manpower.<\/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-655869","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\/655869","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=655869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}