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Tuesday, March 13, 2018

IndiGo cancels 47 flights after DGCA grounds planes with faulty engines Tuesday March 13,2018


Budget carrier IndiGo cancelled as many as 47 flights on Tuesday March 13,2018 after the country’s aviation regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation ( DGCA) grounded its eight A320Neo planes with faulty Pratt & Whitney engines, along with three such aircraft of GoAir.


IndiGo has cancelled 47 flights across its domestic network on 13 March, the airline announced on its website. The flights that have been cancelled are from Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Patna, Srinagar, Bhubaneswar, Amritsar, Srinagar and Guwahati, among others.

The DGCA cracked the whip after an IndiGo flight bound for Lucknow returned to Ahmedabad within 40 minutes of its getting airborne due to a mid-air engine failure on Monday. Citing safety of aircraft operations, the director of the DGCA, in the 12 March order, said that A320Neos fitted with PW1100 engines beyond ESN 450 have been grounded with immediate effect.

Three other IndiGo A320Neo planes have been on the ground since February following similar engine problems. On Monday, hundreds of passengers were stranded across the country as dozens of flights were cancelled by IndiGo and GoAir following the grounding of 11 planes. IndiGo operates about 1,000 flights daily. IndiGo carries about 40% of domestic flyers, while GoAir has a market share of around 10%.

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Note

It was founded as a private company by Rahul Bhatia of InterGlobe Enterprises and Rakesh Gangwal, a United States-based expatriate Indian  in 2006.

The airline became the largest Indian carrier in passenger market share in 2012

The company went public in November 2015

It is the largest airline in India by passengers carried and fleet size, with a 39.7% market share as of January 2018.

It is also the largest individual Asian low cost carrier  in terms of jet fleet size and passengers carried, and the 7th largest carrier in Asia with over 46 million passengers carried in 2017.

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