Passengers wait outside the Indigo airlines ticketing counter at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport, after several IndiGo airlines flights were cancelled, in Mumbai, on December 5, 2025.
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Reuters IndiGo cancelled more than 1,000 flights on Friday (December 5, 2025) and will axe hundreds more on Saturday (December 6, 2025), crippling air travel across India and sending airfares skyrocketing, which prompted the government to exempt the country’s largest airline from meeting new rules until February 10. The airline suspended all departures from the Delhi airport for the entire day to reboot its systems and stop cascading delays. It cancelled all its domestic flights from Chennai airport and all flights from Bengaluru to Delhi and Mumbai for the entire day. Also read | Why IndiGo has delayed, cancelled hundreds of flights As airfares on flights from other airlines skyrocketed with IndiGo passengers trying to make alternative arrangements, SpiceJet added seven flights on Friday (December 5) to destinations like Mumbai, Bengaluru, and Kolkata, and 17 flights on Saturday (December 6).
Published: December 5, 2025 4:55 pm
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