India’s largest airline IndiGo is in a crisis, which has thrown the country’s entire civil aviation ecosystem out of gear. With scores of flights cancelled daily this week, over 1,000 cancellations on Friday (December 5) alone, thousands of passengers were stranded, and scenes of chaos erupted at major airports across India. As the disruption continued to deepen, the airline received a rap on the knuckles from the country’s aviation authorities, who also initiated an inquiry into the widespread disruption. But they also evidently blinked and ended up giving the airline the relief it had sought.

India’s aviation regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on Friday granted IndiGo a temporary one-time exemption from some night operations-related changes in the new Flight Duty

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