New Delhi : Passengers flying with IndiGo all over India are still stuck in a mess flights keep getting delayed or cancelled, and by Friday, December 5, 2025, it had dragged on for four days straight. In the middle of all this, a video shot at one airport started making the rounds online. She’d been stranded for hours, waiting for a flight that just wouldn’t leave.
The video’s tough to watch. The man walks up to the customer assistance manager, his voice breaking as he repeats, “Mere beti ko pad chahiye… niche se khoon aa raha hai.” He’s pleading, but the staff barely react. Only when he raises his voice and steps forward does the manager reply, “Sir, hum aisa nahi kar sakte.” That just makes things worse. The counter’s packed other passengers are visibly angry too, fed up with the lack of updates, the endless waiting, and the feeling that nobody’s helping.
"सिस्टर, मेरी बेटी को सेनेटरी पैड चाहिए…
— अपूर्व اپوروا Apurva Bhardwaj (@grafidon) December 5, 2025
नीचे से ब्लड गिर रहा है।
पिता रो रहा है।
फ़्लाइट टाइम पर नहीं चल रहा है,
सत्ता के नाम पर सट्टा चल रहा है।
अच्छे दिन आ गए…#अमृतकाल चल रहा है.#घोरकलजुग #IndigoDelay pic.twitter.com/J8YjPJB7qh
In Delhi, IndiGo cancelled all flights from Indira Gandhi International Airport until midnight on Friday. Over in Bengaluru, at least 102 flights were scrapped first thing in the morning. The same story played out in airport after airport; IndiGo just couldn’t keep its planes running because of a pileup of operational problems. To keep things from getting even worse, IndiGo plans to cut back on flights starting December 8.
They even asked to be excused from the rule about shorter night flying hours until then, and the aviation regulator’s still deciding what to do about that. The DGCA isn’t letting it slide. They’ve told IndiGo to hand over a clear plan covering crew hiring, getting new planes, training, and changing up their staff schedules anything to make sure this kind of meltdown doesn’t happen again.