IndiGo CEO Pieter Elbers on December 7 said the airline is “getting back” after days of mass cancellations and delays, with around 1,650 flights expected to operate through the day as efforts to stabilise the network continue. The country’s largest carrier, which typically runs about 2,300 flights daily, managed roughly 1,500 flights on Saturday — a sharp recovery from the little over 700 it operated on December 5. Advertisement

In an internal video message to staff from the airline’s operational control centre, Elbers said IndiGo’s On Time Performance (OTP) is expected to reach 75 percent today. “Today, we have realised further improvements of the system in order to reach around 1,650 flights,” he said, adding that “step by step, we are getting back”.

Elbers also noted that cancellati

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