IndiGo Crisis Continues as Over 550 Flights Cancelled Due to Crew Shortage

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Bhupendra Singh Chundawat

New Delhi, December 5 (Daily Kiran) – The operational crisis at IndiGo Airlines that has been ongoing for the past three days is likely to continue for now. This will cause significant inconvenience to thousands of passengers. The airline has acknowledged that they failed to anticipate the crew shortage problem and made mistakes at the planning level.

India’s largest airline IndiGo has been facing problems due to crew shortage for the past three days. This has severely affected IndiGo’s operations and thousands of passengers are facing difficulties.

The severity of the situation can be gauged from the fact that on Thursday alone, more than 550 flights were cancelled at over 10 airports including Delhi-Mumbai. Apart from Delhi and Mumbai, IndiGo flights were cancelled from Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Chennai, Goa, Jaipur and Indore airports. Affected passengers created disturbances at several locations.

(Daily Kiran)