IndiGo drops 130 flights daily

Bengaluru tops list of flight curtailments

- SUKALP SHARMA

FOLLOWING directives from the government and the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) to curtail its domestic schedule by 10%, IndiGo reduced around 130 daily flights across 94 routes, shows an analysis of its operating schedule.

The airline's highest frequency and busiest domestic routes, like Delhi-Mumbai, Delhi-Bengaluru, and Mumbai-Bengaluru, have seen no reduction in flight frequencies, shows the data sourced from aviation analytics company Cirium. Further, the curtailment in schedule is not concentrated in a few routes, its rather spread out.

Among the top airports, Bengaluru has seen the most domestic flight reductions, followed by Hyderabad, Chennai, Kolkata, and Ahmedabad.

There is no curtailment in flights to and from the airline's largest base Delhi, while just two flights—one departure and one arrival—at Mumbai have been reduced. In terms of route length, a sizable part of the curtailment exercise appears to be on relatively short-distance routes, like those within the same state or between cities in neighbouring states.

The analysis is based on the changes in IndiGo's operating schedules for a single day-Monday, December 29-filed three weeks apart.