{"id":656457,"date":"2025-12-15T10:34:37","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T05:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=656457"},"modified":"2025-12-15T13:35:03","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T08:05:03","slug":"indigo-chaos-dgca-suspends-4-flight-operations-inspectors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indigo-chaos-dgca-suspends-4-flight-operations-inspectors\/","title":{"rendered":"IndiGo chaos: DGCA suspends 4 flight operations inspectors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on Friday suspended four flight operations inspectors (FOIs) in a tacit admission of regulatory gaps during the IndiGo scheduling meltdown that affected millions of flyers this month even as the embattled airline\u2019s chief appeared before the regulator for a second day running.<\/p>\n<p>These inspectors are senior officials who work as part of DGCA\u2019s regulatory and safety oversight functions, often deployed to monitor airline operations. \u201cContracts of these FOIs with the DGCA have been terminated in relation to the recent IndiGo crisis,\u201d an official said, citing the order dated December 11.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on Friday suspended four flight operations inspectors (FOIs) in a tacit admission of regulatory gaps during the IndiGo scheduling meltdown that affected millions of flyers this month even as the embattled airline\u2019s chief appeared before the regulator for a second day running. These inspectors are senior officials who work as part of DGCA\u2019s regulatory and safety oversight functions, often deployed to monitor airline operations. \u201cContracts of these FOIs with the DGCA have been terminated in relation to the recent IndiGo crisis,\u201d an official said, citing the order dated December 11.<\/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":[184,141,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-656457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-hindustantimes","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656457","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=656457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}