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IndiGo's Neo fiasco: Let's stop the sensationalisation and face the facts

It is a known fact that IndiGo pays its pilots handsomely but it also extracts its pound of flesh

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Anjuli Bhargava
Last week low-fare airline IndiGo was forced to ground three A320 Neo aircraft after the  European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) issued an order asking airlines to ground aircraft that had engines of a certain serial number made by Pratt & Whitney.

This is the second time the airline has been forced to ground Neo aircraft. Last year at peak, 9 aircraft were grounded. IndiGo was compensated for the loss, as it has said in its latest earnings call.

In January this year, the airline faced two incidents of engine shutdown in the air. In both the cases, the pilots followed
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