IndiGo and GoAir cancel 65 flights due to faulty engines

Thanks to faulty Pratt & Whitney engines in the planes, IndiGo flights were grounded along with those of GoAir. The decision to cancel as many as 65 flights operated by both of these budget carriers was taken by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) after 11 of the many A320Neo planes run by IndiGo and GoAir were detected with faulty Pratt & Whitney engines that were causing problems for a lot of flyers.

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Out of the more than a 1,000 flights run by IndiGo on a daily basis, the airline cancelled 47 of them, while GoAir on the other hand, cancelled 18 of the 230 flights that it operates on a daily basis.
The flights that have been cancelled were scheduled to depart from Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Srinagar, Patna, Bhubaneswar, Amritsar, and Guwahati among other major cities across the country.

In a statement given to the media, IndiGo has announced that the affected passengers have been given the option of either taking an alternative flight to their desired destinations or simply cancel their tickets with full refund granted.

"IndiGo has cancelled certain flights due to the grounding of our aircraft further to the DGCA directions which has been issued in the interest of safety," the airline said.

"While we understand that this may cause inconvenience to some of our passengers, given that we have multiple flights to the same destination, we are proactively re-accommodating all our affected passengers on other flights," it added.

The faulty engines of these planes came to DGCA’s notice after a Lucknow-bound IndiGo flight returned to Ahmedabad within 40 minutes after being airborne because of an engine failure.

In the month of February, three IndiGo A320Neo planes were grounded because of similar engine problems.