The government on Tuesday ordered IndiGo to reduce its schedule by at least 10 per cent, doubling the curtailment from 5 per cent that the aviation watchdog Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) had ordered following network-wide disruptions at the country’s largest airline, which led to scores of flights cancellations on a daily basis since the middle of last week. The decision was communicated by the Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA) in a meeting with IndiGo CEO Pieter Elbers.

IndiGo is India’s largest airline with a domestic market share of nearly 65 per cent, and its schedule has over 2,300 daily flights, around 2,150 of which are domestic flights. A 10 per cent curtailment in domestic flights would mean that the airline’s daily scheduled domestic flights would come down to les

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