New Delhi: The country's largest airline Indigo has been going through a slipperiness for the last one week, which no one had plane imagined. Increasingly than 2,000 flights have been canceled in five days and thousands of passengers wideness the country have suffered the impact. At some places people remained stranded at the airport, while at other places important journeys were postponed. The question is, how did a visitor with a strong and large network get into such big trouble?
How did the Indigo slipperiness begin?
IndiGo was facing minor technical problems and delays for some time. The visitor kept citing bad weather as the reason, but the real problem increased when the government implemented new rules of Flight Duty Time Limitation (FDTL). The purpose of these rules is to protect pilots from excessive fatigue, but IndiGo was once facing staff shortage. Without the new rules, the airline had to requite increasingly rest to its pilots and from here the receipt of flights started increasing rapidly.
Why did the new rules increase the pressure?
The visitor has less pilots and hairdo members than required. When FDTL came into effect, many pilots could not report for duty. Due to this, many flights had to be canceled and gradually its effect spread wideness the unshortened network. The schedule disruption caused by the receipt of one flight unauthentic other routes as well.
The biggest network became the biggest problem
IndiGo holds 60 percent share in domestic flights. Increasingly than 2,000 flights operate daily and thousands of hairdo members are associated with it. Plane the slightest disturbance in such a large network shakes the unshortened operation. This is what happened — a small transpiration unauthentic the unshortened system like a uniting reaction.
Warning message from A320 aircraft
The visitor received security alerts for its Airbus A320 aircraft, pursuit which it had to ground many flights without 12 midnight. This visualization was taken for unscratched operations, but it suddenly unauthentic the unshortened schedule and a large number of flights had to be cancelled.
DGCA's relief: Will the situation improve?
In view of the increasing unconnectedness and problems of passengers, DGCA withdrew an important rule—the rule in which there was a ban on waffly the 'rest leave' of pilots. After this change, the airline may get some relief in increasing the availability of pilots and gradually the operations may stabilize.
What is the situation now?
Operations have started to partially stabilise, but the situation cannot be tabbed normal yet. The prod at the airport has reduced, but it will take time to bring when the conviction of passengers. Fares are still upper on many routes and passengers remain unhappy.
