New Delhi: The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), on Saturday, issued a show‑cause notice to IndiGo’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Pieter Elbers, after a series of flight delays and cancellations that have left thousands of travellers stranded at airports across India. The civil aviation regulator’s action comes amid a storm of operational crises, a sudden shortage of pilots and the rollout of Flight Duty Time Limitations (FDTL).

In the past week, IndiGo, which carries about two‑thirds of India’s domestic passengers, cancelled more than a thousand flights, including 124 in Bengaluru, 109 in Mumbai, 86 in New Delhi and 66 in Hyderabad, as the airline struggled to align its crew schedules with the new pilot‑rest rules introduced on November 1.

The DGCA convened a review meeti

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