Aviation Ministry has constituted a 4-member committee to identify causes leading to flight disruptions at IndiGo on Friday.
IndiGo cancelled more than 1,000 flights on Friday (December 5, 2025) and will axe hundreds more on Saturday (December 6, 2025), crippling air travel across India and sending airfares skyrocketing, which prompted the government to exempt the country’s largest airline from meeting new rules until February 10.
The airline suspended all departures from the Delhi airport for the entire day to reboot its systems and stop cascading delays. It cancelled all its domestic flights from Chennai airport and all flights from Bengaluru to Delhi and Mumbai for the entire day.
As airfares on flights from other airlines skyrocketed with IndiGo passengers trying to make alternative arrangements, SpiceJet added seven flights on Friday (December 5) to destinations like Mumbai, Bengaluru, and Kolkata, and 17 flights on Saturday (December 6).
The Northern Railway decided to increase 3AC (air-conditioned 3-tier) and chair car coaches in four premium trains to allow passengers to make alternative arrangements. These trains included Jammu Rajdhani Express, Dibrugarh Rajdhani Express, Chandigarh Shatabdi Express, and Amritsar Shatabdi Express.
Minister for Civil Aviation Ram Mohan Naidu also held a meeting with various pilot bodies, including Airline Pilots’ Association India and Federation of Indian Pilots, and appealed to them to ensure cooperation from pilots to quell brewing unrest over the temporary rollback of rules granted to IndiGo.
