{"id":656255,"date":"2025-12-12T11:20:51","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T05:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=656255"},"modified":"2025-12-12T11:20:51","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T05:50:51","slug":"indigo-crisis-dgca-sacks-4-flight-operations-inspectors-for-oversight-airline-asked-to-hire-more-pilots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indigo-crisis-dgca-sacks-4-flight-operations-inspectors-for-oversight-airline-asked-to-hire-more-pilots\/","title":{"rendered":"IndiGo crisis: DGCA sacks 4 flight operations inspectors for oversight; airline asked to hire more pilots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has sacked four flight operations inspectors (FOIs) who were the principal operations inspectors (PIO) for oversight on IndiGo. Designated specifically for an airline, these FOIs are supposed to keep a close watch on the airline\u2019s requirements and also see if they have the required resources in crew terms for their operations.<\/p>\n<p>In IndiGo\u2019s case, say sources, despite the fact that a new flight duty time limitation (FDTL) or crew rostering rules were to come into effect from July 1, 2025, and then Nov 1 which would have increased pilot requirement, the airline did not hire the same. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has sacked four flight operations inspectors (FOIs) who were the principal operations inspectors (PIO) for oversight on IndiGo. Designated specifically for an airline, these FOIs are supposed to keep a close watch on the airline\u2019s requirements and also see if they have the required resources in crew terms for their operations. In IndiGo\u2019s case, say sources, despite the fact that a new flight duty time limitation (FDTL) or crew rostering rules were to come into effect from July 1, 2025, and then Nov 1 which would have increased pilot requirement, the airline did [&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":[220,130,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-656255","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\/656255","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=656255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}