IndiGo flight cancellations: South Central Railway to run special trains to clear passenger rush

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IndiGo cancels over 400 flights today

IndiGo cancelled over 400 flights from four major airports, including Bengaluru, Mumbai, Delhi and Hyderabad, Saturday, a day after managing to temporarily secure major relaxations in the second phase of the court-mandated new flight duty and rest period norms for the cockpit crew, news agency PTI reported.

South Central Railway’s special trains

A press release from the SCR said it is running special trains to clear the extra rush of passengers to Chennai, Mumbai and Shalimar (Kolkata) from Hyderabad Saturday.

PTI, citing sources at Rajiv Gandhi International Airport, as many as 74 outbound IndiGo flights are expected to be cancelled from Hyderabad on Saturday.

Similarly, 70 incoming flights are also likely to be cancelled during the day.

Passengers frustrated

The flight cancellations drew ire from passengers, who thronged the IndiGo counters at the airport, demanding to know the exact situation.

“This is utter nonsense! Digiyatra done, message received that departure has been rescheduled ahead of the scheduled departure and now upon arriving at Hyderabad airport coming to know at the security checkpoint that Indigo flight is cancelled,” Tarun Singha, former Ministry of Defence spokesperson, said in a post on X.

“But the thing is if you don’t shout they do nothing. Example at Hyderabad Airport, there was no staff no flight information for an hour. Then a fellow passenger started shouting on the mic and an Indigo staff appeared finally,” a netizen said in a post.

On Friday, when IndiGo cancelled over 1,000 flights from across airports, its CEO Pieter Elbers apologised in a video message for the major inconvenience caused to passengers due to the disruptions.

In the one-way video communication, Elbers also said that the airline was expecting fewer than 1,000 flights on Saturday.