Third day of mass cancellations by India's biggest airline

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Thousands of IndiGo passengers were stranded by flight cancellations on Dec 4 - a third day of chaos after the biggest airline in India did not make sufficient changes to its roster planning to accommodate new government regulations.  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00Thousands of Indigo passengers were left stranded on Thursday as India's largest airline entered

00:11its third consecutive day of disruptions caused by inadequate roster adjustments to meet new

00:17government regulations. At least 175 flights were cancelled by early Thursday, following

00:23150 cancellations the day before. Travelers in major hubs including New Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad,

00:30Pune and Bengaluru were frustrated by the widespread chaos.

00:53The Federation of Indian Pilots said Indigo was struggling with roster adjustments and scheduling

01:22as required by the new safety rules.

01:24The first thing that I would like to tell is that there is a pilot shortage. The pilot shortage

01:33is because the pilot shortage was less than flying. They thought that we will run the job

01:42from this. So the extra pilots are not there. The other thing is that the crew scheduling

01:50is scheduled for pilots. They did not rostering the pilots.

01:59The new regulations were announced by the government last year and only took effect on November 1.

02:06India's civil aviation regulator will meet Indigo's senior management to investigate the causes of the

02:12crisis and assess the airline's recovery plan. Shares of Indigo, which holds 60 percent of the market,

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