IndiGo, GoAir cancel 50 flights for Wednesday
IndiGo and GoAir cancelled around 50 flights on Wednesday as almost one-third of their A320 Neo aircraft fleet remained grounded after a safety directive by the country’s aviation watchdog DGCA. IndiGo has cancelled 42 flights for March 14. Flights to Mumbai, Kolkata, Pune, Jaipur, Srinagar, Bhubaneswar, Chennai, Delhi, Dehradun, Amritsar, Bengaluru and Hyderabad, among others have been held, the airline announced on its website. Wadia Group-promoted GoAir said it had cancelled six flights on Wednesday due to the grounding of three of its A320 Neo planes. On Tuesday, the two airlines together had cancelled over 65 flights, with IndiGo alone cancelling over 47 services, due to the grounding of their 11 aircraft--eight of IndiGo and three of GoAir--by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation on March 13, citing passengers safety concerns arising out of the mid-air shutdown of the Pratt & Whitney-manufactured Neo engines of these airplanes. Of these, IndiGo has 33 and GoAir 12 planes. -PTC News
