IndiGo reassured its customers that airport staff are working to minimise the wait times at check-in counters. However, passengers reported facing issues, including difficulties with web check-in
Shares of listed airlines IndiGo and SpiceJet gained up to 5.4 per cent after the central government cut air turbine fuel (ATF) rates
Aviation watchdog DGCA is probing the incident of tail strike involving an IndiGo aircraft on September 9 and the flight crew has been derostered, a senior official said on Tuesday. In a statement, IndiGo said its A321 aircraft was grounded in Bangalore due to a tail strike on September 9. It was operating the flight from Delhi to Bengaluru. "The aircraft is currently under maintenance and will be back in operation post necessary repairs. The incident is under investigation," the airline said. According to the senior official at the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), the flight crew has been off rostered and the incident is under investigation.
Passengers of an IndiGo flight from the city to Doha waited inside the aircraft for more than four hours as the flight was delayed due to a technical issue on Sunday. Some passengers took to social media to complain about the long flight delay and that they had to wait for long. The flight was to take off on Sunday early morning. Passengers were inside the aircraft for more than four hours before they deplaned. The flight is now expected to take off later in the day from the Mumbai airport, sources in the know said. IndiGo said its flight 6E 1303, operating from Mumbai to Doha, was delayed due to a technical reason. "The aircraft tried to depart for its destination a couple of times but had to finally be called off due to the extended time lag on account of various procedural delays," the airline said in a statement. While apologising for the inconvenience, IndiGo said its airport team immediately provided assistance to the affected customers and provided refreshments and necessa
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IndiGo has paid the reduced penalty of Rs 70 lakh imposed by regulator BCAS on the airline in connection with the incident of passengers having food on the Mumbai airport tarmac in January this year. The Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS) had imposed a fine of Rs 1.2 crore on the airline on January 18 for the incident that happened on January 14. In a filing to the BSE on Tuesday, IndiGo said that pursuant to an appeal, BCAS reduced the penalty to Rs 70 lakh through an order dated August 12. "There is a delay in submission of the disclosure within prescribed timelines since the company was in the process of reviewing the legal remedies available against the order. Post review, the Company has paid the revised/reduced penalty amount to BCAS on September 10, 2024," the filing said. Many passengers rushed out of an IndiGo aircraft at the Mumbai airport, sat on the tarmac, and some were also seen having food there as soon as their diverted Goa-Delhi flight landed after a long del
The budget-carrier is planning to double the airline's international destinations to 40 by March 2025, with a focus on untapped markets for Indian travellers
InterGlobe Aviation promoter Rakesh Gangwal and his family trust have reduced their stakes in the airline by selling a combined 5.83 per cent shareholding for about Rs 10,500 crore. A total of 2.25 crore shares or 5.83 per cent holding in InterGlobe Aviation were sold by Gangwal and Chinkerpoo Family Trust, whose trustees are Shobha Gangwal and JP Morgan Trust Company of Delaware. In two separate regulatory filings, Rakesh Gangwal sold 22.50 lakh shares of InterGlobe Aviation and the Chinkerpoo Family Trust disposed of more than 2.02 crore scrips of the airline. After the share sale, Gangwal's stake in InterGlobe Aviation has come down to 5.31 per cent from 5.89 per cent, while the Chinkerpoo Family Trust's stake has declined to 8.24 per cent from 13.49 per cent, the filing said. Also, the combined shareholding of Gangwal and Chinkerpoo Family Trust has reduced to 13.55 per cent from 19.38 per cent. On Thursday, Gangwal's family trust sold a 5.24 per cent stake in the airline for
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India is a very underpenetrated aviation market, which means a strong growth outlook
3.8 per cent stake for Rs 7.1k crore on sale via block deals: Sources
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Airline sources stated that the growth was higher in 2022-23 because the airline was normalising the remuneration of employees who had suffered salary cuts during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic
Just over a three-hour flight from Delhi, these four countries have seen a big jump in visitors
IndiGo will never be found guilty of gouging customers, he added
IndiGo, India's largest carrier, operates 35 weekly flights between the two countries, according to aviation analytics firm Cirium
The airline will launch its business class tickets on 12 routes, starting with Delhi-Mumbai. It will also serve the cities of Bengaluru, Chennai, Kolkata and Hyderabad within a year after the initial