A government doctor travelling from Dibrugarh in Assam for a conference in Jammu on Friday was grounded in Delhi. Stranded midway, she had to desperately book a hotel and would be presenting her lecture online. The doctor is among the thousands of passengers whose plans were thrown haywire by the chaos created by the mass cancellation of IndiGo flights. Couldn't have IndiGo, India's biggest airline, prepared for the new rules for pilots that it knew well in advance?

Friday, the third day of disruptions, saw 750 flights cancelled, with 250 at Delhi's IGI Airport.

"Got stuck in the IndiGo mess last night. Our 8 PM flight took off at 6 AM. After 10 long hours. Kids were crying. Old people were waiting. But, there were no updates," posted entrepreneur Prakash Dadlani on X.

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