New Delhi: In what aviation veterans describe as India’s worst airline crisis in over ten years, budget carrier IndiGo has spent the past week clawing its way out of a catastrophic operational collapse that grounded more than a thousand flights in a single day and left tens of thousands of passengers stranded at airports from Delhi to Srinagar. Triggered by a severe pilot shortage and compounded by newly enforced flight duty regulations, IndiGo’s meltdown exposed deep fissures in the country’s aviation ecosystem—dominant market share, aggressive expansion, and an over-lean revenue…
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