By Amit Singh

Picture a little girl asleep on a luggage trolley, her teddy tucked under her arm, airport lights too bright for midnight. Her flight was cancelled without warning. A few feet away, an elderly couple sits on a hard floor, exhaustion visible in their posture. Their medication is in a checked-in suitcase they can’t retrieve. A young woman stands alone, shoulders shaking silently, drafting an apology email to a new employer, she will not make her first day because the flight she paid for simply disappeared. These are not scenes from a disaster movie. This is India’s aviation reality today.

IndiGo, the airline that controls India’s domestic skies, has left thousands stranded as its network collapses under new pilot fatigue rules. The irony is painful: Regulations meant to pro

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