In email to employees, Indigo CEO Elbers listed “minor technology glitches, schedule changes, adverse weather conditions, heightened congestion" and FDTL norms

IndiGo has blamed “an accumulation of several operational challenges” for over 300 of its flights getting cancelled and many delayed over the past two days. In an internal email to employees, seen by HT, Indigo CEO Pieter Elbers listed “minor technology glitches, schedule changes, adverse weather conditions, heightened congestion in the aviation ecosystem, and the implementation of the newly released FDTL norms”.

Implementation of new Flight Duty Time Limit (FDTL) norms for pilots from November 1 hit many flights, resulting in dozens of cancellations, despite airlines having enough time to plan for a change originally expected to

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