NEW DELHI: IndiGo will, from Wednesday (Feb 11), function flights as per the necessities of the brand new safety-enhancing flight obligation norms for pilots. The dispensation given by the Directorate Common of Civil Aviation (DGCA) to the airline from following the flight obligation 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 get better 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 absolutely ready to adjust to the statutory provisions and to implement the authorised FDTL Scheme upon expiry of the exemptions. IndiGo has additional acknowledged that every one mandatory operational, rostering, and monitoring preparations are being put in place to make sure full compliance with the authorised FDTL scheme with impact from Feb 11, 2026,” the DGCA stated in a press release on Wednesday.Sharing a “standing replace”, the regulator stated the onetime exemption was given to IndiGo on Dec 5, 2025, “in view of the large 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 had been granted topic to specified situations (like) submission of hourly flight operations information to DGCA and weekly/fortnightly stories on operational efficiency. Through the validity of the exemptions, IndiGo flight operations had been monitored carefully by means of periodic evaluate conferences with DGCA. Additional, DGCA officers had been deployed at varied airports to supervise passenger dealing with and handle passenger inconvenience. As well as, Flight Operations Inspectors (FOls) had been positioned at IndiGo Operations Management Centre for real-time monitoring of flight operations, guaranteeing steady regulatory oversight throughout the exemption interval,” the assertion added.
