Overview

• The DGCA ordered three senior Air India officials to be stripped of crew-scheduling duties and issued a show-cause notice after uncovering serious rostering lapses.
• Officials flagged repeated pilot duty-time breaches, including two long-haul flights that exceeded the 10-hour maximum flight duty limit.
• Regulators based their action on voluntary disclosures by the airline that revealed failures in licensing, rest and recency compliance.
• Air India said it has complied with the DGCA’s directives, placed its COO in interim charge of operations control and initiated internal disciplinary proceedings against the implicated staff.
• Enhanced safety audits have disrupted dozens of flights and prompted Air India to suspend three overseas routes and cut services on 16 international sectors through July 15.