IndiGo “profusely apologised” to the Union government on Monday (December 8, 2025) and sought additional time to respond to the Directorate General of Civil Aviation’s (DGCA) show-cause notices issued to the airline, citing that the regulator’s norms allow a 15-day window to file a response instead of the 48 hours granted to it.

The airline also informed the government that it was “not realistically possible to pinpoint the exact causes” of the widespread disruptions in its flight operations in recent weeks due to the complexity and vast scale of operations, according to a statement issued by the Ministry of Civil Aviation.

The DGCA had on Saturday served show-cause notices to IndiGo’s Chief Operating Officer Isidro Porqueras and CEO Pieter Elbers. The notices stated that “large-scale

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