If India wants to avoid replaying IndiGo turmoil across sectors, it must ensure no company should ever reach a scale where its failure becomes a national crisis

By Anurag Reddy Nayini

There’s a moment every traveller remembers from the past week. From packed terminals, serpentine queues, families sleeping against pillars, to departure boards bleeding red with cancellations. What looked like a sudden, mysterious collapse at IndiGo wasn’t just another operational hiccup. It was a reminder of a bigger risk India has quietly allowed to grow, the concentration of essential public-facing infrastructure in the hands of a single, dominant player.

Here’s the thing. IndiGo didn’t just have a bad day. It had a systemic failure at a scale only possible when one airline controls roughly six out

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