A mounting pilot shortage at IndiGo is resulting in flight cancellations and large number of delays by upto seven hours which is exacerbated on Wednesday (December 3, 2025) by some cabin crew no shows in Mumbai.

The pilot shortage is triggered by the full implementation of the stricter rest and duty norms for them effective November 1.

Over the past few weeks, airline’s operations team have reached out to pilots to return early from their sick leaves and asked others to give up their privilege leave.

Government data showed that only 35% of the airline’s flights were on time on December 2, and 49.5% were on time on December 1.

To make matters worse, no show by some crew on Wednesday delayed several flights,including the Mumbai-Maldives service.

In Bengaluru’s Kempegowda International

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