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DGCA IMPOSES RS 22.20 CRORE PENALTY ON INDIGO OVER DECEMBER 2025 FLIGHT DISRUPTIONS
The Business Guardian
|January 19, 2026
A four-member committee constituted by the DGCA examined the airline’s operational planning, crew rostering, management oversight and software systems.
The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has imposed penalties amounting to Rs 22.20 crore on IndiGo Airlines following widespread flight disruptions in early December 2025 that affected more than three lakh passengers across the country.
The action follows a comprehensive inquiry ordered by the Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA) after IndiGo cancelled 2,507 flights and delayed 1,852 others between December 3 and 5, 2025.
A four-member committee constituted by the DGCA examined the airline’s operational planning, crew rostering, management oversight and software systems.
According to the committee’s findings, the primary causes for the disruption were over-optimisation of operations, inadequate regulatory preparedness, along with deficiencies in system software support and shortcomings in management structure and operational control on the part of IndiGo.
This story is from the January 19, 2026 edition of The Business Guardian.
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