‘IndiGo to function flights per new pilot responsibility norms from right now:’ DGCA | India Information – The Instances of India – Imperial Wire

NEW DELHI: IndiGo will, from Wednesday (Feb 11), function flights as per the necessities of the brand new safety-enhancing flight responsibility norms for pilots. The dispensation given by the Directorate Normal of Civil Aviation (DGCA) to the airline from following the flight responsibility time limitation (FDTL) for its Airbus A320 household pilots lapsed on Tuesday. The identical was given in early Dec 2025, to allow the airline’s collapsed schedule to recuperate as IndiGo had cancelled hundreds of flights that months affecting lakhs of flyers within the peak journey month.“IndiGo has knowledgeable DGCA that it shall be totally ready to adjust to the statutory provisions and to implement the permitted FDTL Scheme upon expiry of the exemptions. IndiGo has additional acknowledged that each one obligatory operational, rostering, and monitoring preparations are being put in place to make sure full compliance with the permitted FDTL scheme with impact from Feb 11, 2026,” the DGCA mentioned in an announcement on Wednesday.Sharing a “standing replace”, the regulator mentioned the onetime exemption was given to IndiGo on Dec 5, 2025, “in view of the huge flight disruptions confronted by the airline throughout the preliminary days of Dec 2025… with a view to stabilising flight operations and safeguarding passenger security and curiosity.” The dispensation was “for a restricted interval solely legitimate as much as Feb 10, 2026.”“The… exemptions have been granted topic to specified circumstances (like) submission of hourly flight operations information to DGCA and weekly/fortnightly stories on operational efficiency. In the course of the validity of the exemptions, IndiGo flight operations have been monitored carefully by way of periodic evaluation conferences with DGCA. Additional, DGCA officers have been deployed at numerous airports to supervise passenger dealing with and handle passenger inconvenience. As well as, Flight Operations Inspectors (FOls) have been positioned at IndiGo Operations Management Centre for real-time monitoring of flight operations, making certain steady regulatory oversight throughout the exemption interval,” the assertion added.