Indian air safety officials plan to travel to Seattle to observe Boeing’s testing of a fuel-control switch panel that was removed from an Air India 787 in February after the pilots on a London-Bengaluru flight flagged a possible defect, according to documents seen by Reuters. The testing, described by Indian officials as “sensitive”, renews the…
Amid massive flight disruptions being faced by IndiGo—with over a thousand flight cancellations on Friday alone—aviation regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on granted the airline a temporary one-time exemption from some night operations-related changes in the new Flight Duty Time Limitation (FDTL) norms for pilots. The temporary rollback, which will be in place…
IndiGo is likely to gradually scale up its operations over the coming days to around 2,200 daily flights in all, of which around 1,900 will be domestic and roughly 300 international, according to sources in the know. This truncated schedule is expected to last the entire Winter Schedule, which ends on March 28, 2026. These…
4 min readNew DelhiUpdated: Dec 22, 2025 04:25 PM IST An Air India Boeing 777 aircraft operating a Delhi-Mumbai flight Monday morning had to return to Delhi within half an hour of departure due to low engine oil pressure in of the plane’s two engines, forcing the pilots to shut down the engine and land…
