{"id":173402,"date":"2025-12-08T09:04:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T09:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/173402\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T09:04:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T09:04:11","slug":"india-faces-mass-air-travel-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/173402\/","title":{"rendered":"India faces mass air travel crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The worst aviation crisis in India\u2019s history has frustrated government officials and spurred calls for accountability.<\/p>\n<p>Budget airline IndiGo, which commands 65% of the domestic market and is typically known for punctuality, canceled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/india-news\/why-did-govt-norms-not-hit-other-airlines-as-bad-as-indigo-mass-flight-cancellations-decoded-101765103097341.html\" class=\"styles_linkEmbed__SNmaX\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">thousands of flights over the last several days<\/a> due to a pilot shortage stemming from new rules that limit pilots\u2019 work hours.<\/p>\n<p>The meltdown has crippled air travel across the world\u2019s most populous country; New Delhi is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tribuneindia.com\/news\/india\/show-cause-notice-to-indigo-as-crisis-deepens-airfares-capped-2\/\" class=\"styles_linkEmbed__SNmaX\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">especially irritated that the crisis occurred<\/a> during Russian President Vladimir Putin\u2019s visit to India and diverted media attention, Indian outlet The Tribune reported.<\/p>\n<p>Opposition politicians, meanwhile, <a href=\"https:\/\/thewire.in\/political-economy\/indigo-crisis-airline-was-once-the-biggest-purchaser-of-electoral-bonds-in-transportation-sector\" class=\"styles_linkEmbed__SNmaX\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">accused the government<\/a> of allowing IndiGo to nearly monopolize the sector.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIndian passengers are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecoredaily.in\/p\/indigo-crisis-what-next\" class=\"styles_linkEmbed__SNmaX\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">not going to forget this<\/a>,\u201d an aviation analyst told The Core.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The worst aviation crisis in India\u2019s history has frustrated government officials and spurred calls for accountability. Budget airline&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173403,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[138,219,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-173402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}