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Neelesh Misra says IndiGo staffer mistreated his 10-year-old daughter; airline responds: ‘She is such a finicky eater’

January 14, 2026 6:26 pm

In a post on X that quickly gained traction, Neelesh Misra alleged that an IndiGo cabin crew member behaved rudely towards his daughter who was travelling alone from Lucknow to Goa.

Due to the fog, several IndiGo flights to and from Mumbai, Delhi, Jaipur and Hyderabad were cancelled.

Dense fog forces Mumbai–Chandigarh flight to return after two hours, passengers harassed

January 13, 2026 9:16 pm

The flight, scheduled to depart at 8:20 pm on Monday (January 12), finally took off from Mumbai around 10:15 pm after a delay of nearly one hour and 40 minutes.

As thousands of Indigo passengers were stranded due to mass cancellations, the airline’s share price lost altitude, falling as much as 18% in just 15 days. (Express Archive)

Is the recent IndiGo chaos a buying opportunity or a warning bell?

January 13, 2026 5:22 pm

IndiGo’s share price has slipped below Rs 5,000 after reaching an all-time high of Rs 6,232.5 on August 18, 2025. The reason was the December 2025 flight cancellations. While IndiGo flights have returned to normalcy, its share price hasn’t. What is keeping the market apprehensive?

IndiGo’s first A321 XLR, which is also India’s first aircraft of the type, landed in Delhi on Wednesday.

IndiGo starts receiving A321 XLR aircraft; to replace damp-leased Turkish Boeing 777 planes on Istanbul flights

January 07, 2026 8:50 pm

Amid backlash against Turkey in India due to the former’s public backing of Pakistan during Operation Sindoor, the DGCA had informed IndiGo that it would not allow lease extensions for the two Boeing 777 aircraft on damp lease from Turkish Airlines.

IndiGo spreads out flight curtailment, most busy airports, routes unaffected

December 29, 2025 2:41 pm

IndiGo’s operations have now stabilised and the airline has been operating around 2,200 daily flights, including over 300 international flights, for the past few days

The panel was asked to identify underlying causes for the disruption, assess manpower planning by IndiGo and the airline's preparedness for the new rest and duty duration rules for pilots, review IndiGo's compliance with the new rules, and fix accountability and responsibility for the airline's planning failures, among other things.

No extension beyond March for IndiGo’s wet-leased planes from Turkey; its Turkish Airlines 777s to go back after February

December 23, 2025 4:55 am

Prithviraj Chavan writes: We saw the IndiGO meltdown. Now let’s see the aviation sector’s restructuring

December 22, 2025 7:21 am

The government can consider breaking up IndiGo into two completely independent airlines as was done in the US under the Sherman and Clayton Anti-Trust Acts

Groom books chartered flight after IndiGo cancellation

Groom books chartered flight after sudden IndiGo cancellation to reach wedding on time; video goes viral

December 20, 2025 11:05 am

According to the video, the groom was meant to reach the wedding venue by a regular IndiGo flight, but the sudden cancellation left him stranded just hours before the wedding muhurat.

IndiGo’s under-preparedness for the second phase of the new rest and duty norms for pilots is being seen as a major reason for the crisis.

IndiGo under antitrust watchdog CCI’s scanner after massive operational disruptions hit flight ops across India

December 18, 2025 6:07 pm

According to experts, a company’s dominance by itself is not considered anticompetitive, but abuse of dominant position is.

IndiGo disruptions, DGCA issues show cause notice to Pieter Elbers, IndiGo hit with flight disruptions, Airline's on-time performance (OTP) data, Ministry of Civil Aviation, new flight time duty limitation (FDTL) norms, Delhi High Court

Airline's focus now on resilience, root cause analysis, rebuilding: IndiGo CEO Pieter Elbers

December 18, 2025 1:46 pm

A DGCA panel is already probing the operational disruptions at IndiGo.

INDIGO PHOTOS

Art exhibition experiments with the colours of Indigo and charcoal

March 15, 2022 11:18 am

Titled Indigo and Charcoal, the exhibition is by mixed media artist Sayali Goyal

INDIGO VIDEOS

How often our airlines experience technical snags: News in Numbers

June 22, 2020 6:20 pm

Domestic airlines have reported the number of technical snags they have experienced. Of them all, IndiGo's numbers jump out, because it first reported 340 odd snags and when rivals reported the number suspect, it was revised to over 14,000 snags.