Airfares reached levels never seen before on Friday, with a one-way, one-stop economy-class SpiceJet Kolkata-Mumbai flight ticket for December 6 costing up to Rs 90,000, and a similar ticket on Air India for Mumbai-Bhubaneswar reaching Rs 84,485, according to the airlines' websites. A similar trend was noted on many other high-traffic routes. Bengaluru-New Delhi also shot up to Rs 88,000.

Indigo said operations are expected to normalise in the next 10 days, as the country's largest airline received flight duty norms relaxation from watchdog DGCA, which will probe the disruptions that have impacted thousands of passengers for four straight days. As a large number of flights got cancelled and delayed, chaos continued at major airports across the country, with frustrated passengers scramblin

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