The parliamentary committee has expressed displeasure against the airline and DGCA officials regarding the Indigo flight crisis. According to sources, the parliamentary committee is not satisfied with Indigo’s reply. DGCA and Indigo officials appeared before the parliamentary committee. During this time he did not give proper answers to the questions of the committee. The committee has asked to appear again after 15 days.
A team of officials led by the COO appeared before the committee on behalf of IndiGo, while Secretary Sameer Kumar Sinha appeared on behalf of DGCA and Civil Aviation Ministry. Representatives of Air India, Air India Express, SpiceJet and Aakasha also attended the meeting. IndiGo had canceled hundreds of flights across the country for several days from December 2.
Meeting chaired by JDU MP Sanjay Jha
The parliamentary standing committee on the Ministry of Transport, Tourism and Culture, headed by JDU MP Sanjay Jha, did not reach any conclusion and decided to wait for the Civil Aviation Ministry investigation report before fixing responsibility for the chaos at the airport due to the cancellation of IndiGo flights.
The committee asked to appear again after 15 days
According to sources, some members in the meeting asked whether the Ministry was ready to deal with such a situation after the implementation of the revised Flight Duty Time Limitation (FDTL) rules and whether IndiGo did this as a pressure strategy to get exemption from the new system of duty of pilots. Representatives of Indigo and DGCA did not give satisfactory answers. After this, the committee has again asked both (Indigo and DGCA) to appear before the committee after 15 days.
Instead of apologizing for the inconvenience caused to passengers, IndiGo and DGCA tried to put the entire blame on weather and other technical problems. The committee decided to wait for the report of the four-member committee constituted by the Civil Aviation Ministry, whose report is expected to be submitted by December 28.
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