Multiple IndiGo flights are grounded at Kempegowda International Airport in Bengaluru, India, December 6, 2025.
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New Delhi: IndiGo's flight schedule has been curtailed by 5% following large-scale flight disruptions since December 1, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has said.
IndiGo has also been directed to submit a revised schedule to the DGCA by Wednesday 5 PM, the DGCA said in a notice issued on Monday,
In a statement on Tuesday evening, IndiGo said it has reinstated its operations across their network and will be operating 1,800 flights by the end of the day while planning to fly nearly 1900 flights on Wednesday. Around 500 flights were cancelled during the day.
In its notice issued on Monday, the DGCA said it has examined the Winter Schedule 2025 approved for IndiGo against the backdrop of wide disruption due to massive cancellations of flights. It said 15,014 departures per week were approved for the airline, amounting to 64,346 flights for November.
However, it said, the operational data submitted by IndiGo showed that only 59,438 flights were actually operated during November with 951 flight cancellations.
Compared to its summer schedule, IndiGo was allowed an enhancement of the schedule by 6% with 403 aircraft as against 351. However, the airline could operate only 339 aircraft in October and 344 in November.
"It is inferred that IndiGo has increased its departures by 9.66% in comparison to Winter Schedule 2024 and by 6.05% in relation to Summer Schedule 2025. However, the airline has not demonstrated an ability to operate these schedules efficiently," the DGCA notice said.
"Therefore it is directed to reduce the schedule by 5% across sectors, especially on high-demand, high-frequency flights and to avoid single-flight operations on a sector by IndiGo," the DGCA notice said.
The DGCA order follows the Civil Aviation Minister K Ram Mohan Naidu's statement that the government will reduce the number of routes IndiGo is operating under the ongoing winter schedule during which the airline has been operating over 2,200 flights daily.
"All flights published on our website are scheduled to operate with an adjusted network. Also, nearly all bags that were stuck at airports have been delivered to our customers and the teams are working on delivering the remaining at the earliest..We have optimised our operations, and our on-time performance is also back to normal levels. We have also automated the procedure for our customers to get full refunds upon cancellations (with ‘No Questions Asked’) through a simple process on our website," IndiGo said.