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IndiGo Flight Crisis: Did India’s largest airline intentionally gamble with passenger safety and convenience, leading to a massive operational meltdown? The official deployment of an eight-member Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) Oversight Team at IndiGo’s corporate office in Gurugram is an unprecedented regulatory invasion, confirming that the airline’s recent widespread flight delays and cancellations…

Picture 2,100 daily flights slashed 10%, refunds rushing for thousands grounded since early December – lakhs in limbo, OTP plunging from 84% to 19.7% – as Aviation Minister Ram Mohan Naidu summons CEO Pieter Elbers December 9, demanding “expedite remaining refunds and baggage handover” after 100% completion till December 6. But the curiosity gap crackles:…

DGCA FDTL Rollback 2025: Imagine a regulatory U-turn that grounds the grind of 600+ flight cancellations but reignites the specter of pilot fatigue – 2 lakh passengers spared immediate heartbreak, yet whispers of safety shortcuts echoing from Delhi’s control towers to Mumbai’s tarmacs. On December 5, 2025, DGCA’s FDTL rollback 2025 granted IndiGo a temporary…

India’s longest cantilever glass skywalk has now become a reality in Visakhapatnam, standing high above the Bay of Bengal with an experience that feels almost unreal. Recently inaugurated at the iconic Kailasagiri hilltop by Vizag MP M Sribharath along with Mayor P. Srinivasa Rao, MLA Velagapudi Ramakrishna Babu, and VMRDA Chairman Pranav Gopal, this engineering…

Arunachal Pradesh Sovereignty Issue: On November 21, 2025, what was meant to be a routine transit at Shanghai Pudong International Airport spiraled into an 18-hour ordeal for Prema Wangjom Thongdok, an Indian citizen from Arunachal Pradesh residing in the UK for 14 years.  En route from London to Japan on a China Eastern Airlines flight,…