IndiGo Mayhem: After a 4-hour meeting, a parliamentary committee finds an airline and DGCA’s responses are unclear. What comes next?

IndiGo Mayhem: The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Transport, Tourism, and Culture heard testimony from IndiGo COO Isidro Porqueras and Civil Aviation Ministry Secretary Samir Kumar Sinha about the recent catastrophic airline operational disaster.

They gave their opinions on the challenging scenario that has continued for over a week when they went before the panel on Wednesday.

The parliamentary committee deemed the airline company’s and the Director General of Civil Aviation’s (DGCA) responses to be evasive, ambiguous, and perplexing, according to a report by Jagran.com.

The committee failed to come to a decision.
The panel’s chairman, JDU leader Sanjay Jha, has not yet reached a decision and has chosen to hold off pending the publication of the inquiry report from the Civil Aviation Ministry. For days, thousands of travelers were stuck at airports throughout the nation, suffering severe losses and difficulties.

Several members of the committee questioned if the Ministry of Civil Aviation was ill-equipped to deal with such a circumstance, according to sources that Jagran.com quoted.

The panel also inquired as to whether IndiGo purposefully allowed the confusion to arise in order to be exempt from the flight duty time restriction system or whether the issue was brought on by its implementation.

IndiGo attributes the problem to technological difficulties
The Standing Committee hearing discovered that IndiGo and the DGCA’s comments tried to attribute the flight cancellations and ensuing disruption to technical issues.

There was no feeling of accountability in these answers. The parliamentary committee hearing on Wednesday lasted over four hours and included representatives from Air India, Air India Express, Akasa, and SpiceJet.

A four-person committee has been constituted by the Ministry of Civil Aviation to look into the situation. The central government is anticipated to receive this committee’s findings on December 28.

The largest airline in India had a staff shortage as a result of the DGCA’s new pilot rest regulations, which resulted in thousands of flight delays and cancellations. Passengers suffered for more than a week as the situation worsened.