This week was a nightmare for Indian aviation. Temperatures dropped across northern India. Most airports were engulfed by fog. So hundreds of flights got delayed.It led to some pretty bizarre incidents, like passengers punching pilots and travellers eating dinner on the tarmac. Not a good look! It was a reality check for Indian aviation, but it is not the full story.India had just 74 airports ten years ago; today, it has 148. The plan is to have 220 airports by the end of 2030. Also, more…
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Category: Indigo
Will review operations to avoid disruptions: IndiGo CEO Peter Elbers | Latest News India
IndiGo will be working on ways to work better avoid chaos that the airline’s passengers had to face on Sunday due to dense fog in northern India, CEO Peter Elbers said. Pieter Elbers, CEO of IndiGo airlines at the Wings India 2024 aviation event at Begumpet airport, Hyderabad. (Reuters photo) {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} “We are going to collectively… not only in Indigo itself, but even with the ecosystem; air traffic…
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J Scindia On Fliers Eating On Airport Tarmac
Passengers ate on the tarmac after their flight was delayed and diverted to MumbaiNew Delhi: Amid the row over the video in which passengers of an IndiGo flight are seen eating on the tarmac in Mumbai airport while waiting for take-off, Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia said today that the way security was compromised was “completely unacceptable”.The minister’s statement comes after the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS) slapped a Rs 1.2 crore fine on IndiGo. Aviation…
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GMR Group, IndiGo Airlines tie up for digital transformation in Indian aviation
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GMR Group and IndiGo Airlines on Thursday announced a strategic collaboration forming a digital consortium aimed at reshaping the landscape of the Indian aviation industry.
A press release from GMR said the partnership brings together the diverse strengths of GMR’s infrastructure expertise and IndiGo Airlines’…
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IndiGo Fined Rs 1.2 Crore After Viral Video Shows Fliers Eating On Tarmac
Passengers were filmed eating on the tarmac next to an IndiGo flight at the Mumbai airportNew Delhi: Low-cost carrier IndiGo has been fined Rs 1.2 crore by the Bureau Of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS) after a viral video showed passengers eating on the tarmac as they waited for their delayed flight to take off.The country’s aviation regulator, DGCA, also took cognisance of the video circulating on social media and ordered Mumbai Airport to pay Rs 30 lakh for the violation.On Tuesday, the…
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FSSAI Directs Flight Caterers to Enhance Food Safety Protocols After Worm Controversy | India News
NEW DELHI: The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has directed flight caterers to “enhance existing food safety protocols” after an IndiGo passenger was recently sold a sandwich that allegedly had a worm wriggling in it. FSSAI held a meeting with all big flight caterers on Tuesday (January 16) to “evaluate” existing safety protocols.“The objective was to identify areas requiring improvement and to reinforce the commitment to providing passengers with safe and…
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What Happened On IndiGo Flight Before Man Slapped Pilot? Flier’s Account
Sahil Kataria, who assaulted the IndiGo flight captain, was arrested last eveningNew Delhi: A man on board a Delhi-Goa IndiGo flight service, where a passenger assaulted the captain after hours-long delay, shared a first-hand account of the incident on Monday.Taking to his X account, Sanal Vij said he “doesn’t support violence”, but IndiGo took advantage and “hid all their mismanagement and mistakes in lieu of what the passenger did”.He said that flight 6E2175, which was scheduled to take…
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Domestic air passenger traffic soars 8.34% in 2023; IndiGo dominates with 60.5% share – Airlines/Aviation News
India’s domestic air passenger traffic experienced a year-on-year growth of 8.34% in 2023, reaching a total of 15.20 crore passengers. The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) data disclosed that the total domestic passenger volumes for the year ending December 31, 2022, amounted to 12.32 crore. Furthermore, the domestic air passenger traffic surged by 23.36% in December 2023, totaling 1.37 crore passengers, in contrast to the 1.27 crore carried by local carriers in…
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IndiGo Takes The Biggest Hit In The Annual Fog Meltdown Of Air Travel
Welcome to the annual fog meltdown of Indian air travel. In the 2024 edition, only two major airline groups are left in the country: IndiGo, and Air India and its associates. And IndiGo is getting much more flak on social media than the others this year.Fog is an annual phenomenon that affects Delhi and other airports up north, every winter. It turns up without much advance notice and throws air travel out of gear, the well-oiled machinery it usually is. And on Jan. 14, the north Indian belt…
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IndiGo cornered bigger share of India’s skies in 2023, shows DGCA data
India’s largest carrier, IndiGo, has further increased its domestic market share to 60.5 per cent in 2023 from 56.1 per cent in 2022, according to the data released by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on Monday. SpiceJet, which has been dealing with multiple financial troubles, saw its domestic market share decline to 5.5 per cent in 2023 from 8.7 per cent in 2023, according to the data. Akasa Air, which operated its first commercial flight in August 2022, observed a…
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