A major crisis has unfolded at India's largest airline over the last few days, leaving tens of thousands of passengers stranded and bringing monumental losses of money and time. The disruption came into motion after a change in government-mandated pilot duty hours, which Gurugram-based IndiGo failed to adapt to in due time. It then had to cancel hundreds, and sometimes more than a thousand, of flights on an everyday basis. But the chaos has not merely exposed IndiGo's managerial failure but also a sheer lack of competition and robustness in India's aviation sector. Here's a brief breakdown of what has been going wrong.

India, the world's most populous country and widely considered the fastest-growing aviation market, has long been held back by poor competition in the industry. A country o

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