Flight Disruption Alert: IndiGo Cancels 13 Flights Today Amid Dense Fog

Unique Delhi: As most of us in north India awakened to dense fog on a frigid Sunday morning, the country’s very most life like airline, IndiGo has cancelled 13 flights scheduled for the day citing unhappy climate conditions all the easiest way thru plenty of airports. Two of these flights were then all all over again affected for operational reasons.

These cancellations were centered around main airports all the easiest way thru the country alongside side Chandigarh, Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Hyderabad, Amritsar, Bengaluru, Delhi, Gaya, Kolkata, Chennai, Jaipur and Pune.

This comes as IndiGo has persisted to execute about a of its products and providers for extra than a week citing unhappy climate conditions. On Saturday, the airline had cancelled a total of 57 flights at plenty of airports. These included flights from Chandigarh, Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Hyderabad, Amritsar, Bengaluru, Delhi, Gaya, Kolkata, Chennai, Jaipur and Pune, amongst others.

The Directorate Real of Civil Aviation (DGCA), the country’s airline regulator, announced the length between December 10, 2025 and February 10, 2026 because the genuine fog window this frigid climate. As share of the DGCA fog operations (CAT-IIIB) norms, airways are mandated to roster pilots trained to characteristic in low-visibility conditions, moreover to deploy a CAT-IIIB-compliant aircraft snappily for such operations. 

Class-III is an developed navigation machine that empowers an aircraft to land below foggy conditions. Class-III-A is a precision instrument manner and touchdown that enables a aircraft to land with a runway visual vary (RVR) of 200 metres. Besides to to that, Class-III-B helps in touchdown with an RVR of below 50 metres.

IndiGo, which is run by DGCA norms after its large operations crisis earlier this month, is currently running a curtailed agenda in compliance with the authorities’s picture.

Earlier, below its frigid climate flight agenda, IndiGo modified into once permitted to characteristic 15,014 home flights per week, or about 2,144 flights per day. Right here is roughly six per cent greater than the 14,158 weekly flights it operated all the easiest way thru the summer agenda of 2025.

Nonetheless, the authorities has now lower down the airline’s home flight agenda by 10 per cent or 214 flights per day. Hence IndiGo can’t characteristic extra than 1,930 flights per day on home routes below its frigid climate agenda. 

IndiGo, had reach below a severe storm earlier this month because the airline cancelled hundreds of flights on story of as a lot as date leisure norms for pilots, which allow extra leisure to the pilots. This spiralled real into a nationwide airline crisis because the cancellations went as a lot as around 1,600 flights on a single day all the easiest way thru that length.

Thousands of  passengers were left stranded at main airport for lengthy hours, inflicting principal anxiousness, which triggered the authorities to in the end step in and field strict instructions to the airline.

The Civil Aviation Ministry took a slew of measures, alongside side airfare regulation to forestall overcharging by main carriers, passenger refunds and rescheduling give a take to. It had also issued instructions to the airline touching on baggage reconciliation and transport.