{"id":657794,"date":"2026-01-19T12:21:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T06:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=657794"},"modified":"2026-01-19T12:25:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T06:55:33","slug":"indigo-to-inform-if-it-can-fly-2k-flights-daily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indigo-to-inform-if-it-can-fly-2k-flights-daily\/","title":{"rendered":"IndiGo to inform if it can fly 2k flights daily"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: As IndiGo&#8217;s exemption from the new safety-enhancing flight duty rules for A320 fleet pilots expires Feb 10, the airline must tell DGCA this week, likely Monday, whether it can still run more than 2,000 flights a day under the new rules that increase pilot requirement, reports Saurabh Sinha.<\/p>\n<p>If it cannot, authorities are expected to step in and cut flights in time to avert a repeat of last December&#8217;s chaos, for which the DGCA fined the airline Rs 22.2cr, an amount pilots&#8217; body has dismissed as &#8220;peanuts&#8221;, saying the regulator counted only three days of disruption when the turmoil lasted far longer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: As IndiGo&#8217;s exemption from the new safety-enhancing flight duty rules for A320 fleet pilots expires Feb 10, the airline must tell DGCA this week, likely Monday, whether it can still run more than 2,000 flights a day under the new rules that increase pilot requirement, reports Saurabh Sinha. If it cannot, authorities are expected to step in and cut flights in time to avert a repeat of last December&#8217;s chaos, for which the DGCA fined the airline Rs 22.2cr, an amount pilots&#8217; body has dismissed as &#8220;peanuts&#8221;, saying the regulator counted only three days of disruption when the [&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-657794","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\/657794","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=657794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}