{"id":21971,"date":"2025-12-07T22:49:05","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T22:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/2025\/12\/07\/india-grapples-with-major-air-travel-disruption\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T22:49:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T22:49:05","slug":"india-grapples-with-major-air-travel-disruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/2025\/12\/07\/india-grapples-with-major-air-travel-disruption\/","title":{"rendered":"India Grapples with Major Air Travel Disruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<h3>Major Crisis Hits India\u2019s Aviation Sector<\/h3>\n<p>India is currently facing one of the biggest crises in its aviation history, leaving government officials frustrated and prompting calls for greater accountability.<\/p>\n<p>IndiGo, a budget airline that holds a 65% share of the domestic market and is usually recognized for its punctuality, has canceled thousands of flights in recent days. This disruption is due to a shortage of pilots, which arose from new regulations that limit how many hours pilots can work.<\/p>\n<p>The fallout from this crisis has severely affected air travel across India. New Delhi is particularly annoyed that the situation escalated during a visit by Russian President Vladimir Putin, drawing significant media focus away from other important events in the country.<\/p>\n<p>In the political arena, opposition leaders are blaming the government for allowing IndiGo to gain such a dominant position in the market. An aviation expert expressed to The Core that \u201cIndian passengers will not forget this situation easily.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This ongoing issue raises concerns about the future of air travel in India and highlights the need for steps to ensure better management and oversight in the industry.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Major Crisis Hits India\u2019s Aviation Sector India is currently facing one of the biggest crises in its aviation history, leaving government officials frustrated and prompting calls for greater accountability. IndiGo, a budget airline that holds a 65% share of the domestic market and is usually recognized for its punctuality, has canceled thousands of flights in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21972,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[3081,27916,27917],"class_list":{"0":"post-21971","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-india-news","8":"tag-accountability","9":"tag-government-officials","10":"tag-pilot-shortage"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}