Overview
- The aviation regulator terminated four Flight Operations Inspectors responsible for IndiGo oversight after a preliminary review pointed to lapses in monitoring.
- IndiGo CEO Pieter Elbers and COO Isidre Porqueras appeared before a four-member DGCA inquiry panel for a second day of questioning.
- DGCA teams are stationed at IndiGo’s Gurugram headquarters and are conducting spot checks at airports with daily reporting on cancellations, refunds, crew deployment and passenger care.
- IndiGo is operating on a 10% curtailed winter schedule, with roughly 160 flights canceled on Friday across Delhi and Bengaluru as disruptions ease from earlier peaks.
- The airline is offering Rs 10,000 travel vouchers to passengers affected between December 3 and 5 and has hired Chief Aviation Advisors LLC, led by Captain John Illson, to conduct an independent root-cause review.