The current delays and across-the-board cancellations of around 1,000 flights over four days from among the carrier’s 1,500 daily flights are owed more to IndiGo’s “prolonged and unorthodox lean manpower strategy across all departments

xThe aviation chaos that has been affecting passengers of India’s largest carrier IndiGo could have been largely avoided if the airline had done any planning on meeting eventualities arising from the regulations that took effect last month, a year and a half after they were proposed.

True, there are annual disruptions to air travel caused by winter weather in the north and the northeast monsoon season in the south. But the current delays and across-the-board cancellations of around 1,000 flights over four days from among the carrier’s 1,500 daily flights a

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