{"id":658396,"date":"2026-02-06T12:08:41","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T06:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=658396"},"modified":"2026-02-06T12:08:41","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T06:38:41","slug":"indigos-december-disruption-stranded-16-2-lakh-domestic-flyers-dgca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indigos-december-disruption-stranded-16-2-lakh-domestic-flyers-dgca\/","title":{"rendered":"IndiGo\u2019s December disruption stranded 16.2 lakh domestic flyers: DGCA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: When IndiGo\u2019s flight operations went topsy-turvy in December last year, there were videos and photos of hapless and tired passengers confronting ground staff. The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has now put a number to their faces.<\/p>\n<p>The directorate\u2019s monthly traffic data for Dec 2025 says 16.2 lakh domestic flyers were stranded at airports across the country due to the non-availability of either IndiGo aircraft or their crew members. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: When IndiGo\u2019s flight operations went topsy-turvy in December last year, there were videos and photos of hapless and tired passengers confronting ground staff. The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has now put a number to their faces. The directorate\u2019s monthly traffic data for Dec 2025 says 16.2 lakh domestic flyers were stranded at airports across the country due to the non-availability of either IndiGo aircraft or their crew members.<\/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-658396","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\/658396","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=658396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}