According to sources after aviation industry regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) grounded eight A320neo planes of budget airline Indigo with faulty Pratt & Whitney engines, the airline has cancelled as many as 47 flights on Tuesday. Sources reported that all flights cancelled are domestic flights scheduled for March 13. These are flights from Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata, Chennai, Patna, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Srinagar, Bhubaneswar, Amritsar, Guwahati, Raipur, Cochin, Coimbatore, Trivandrum, Indore, Ahmedabad, Bhubaneswar, among others.
Meanwhile Indigo has published a full list of cancelled flights with alternate flight options on its website. Accordingly the DGCA on Monday directed IndiGo and GoAir to ground a total of 11 A320neo aircraft fitted with Pratt & Whitney engines. Out of the 11, eight are operated by IndiGo while GoAir operates three.
Furthermore with this, all the A320neo
aircraft with PW1100 engines beyond serial number 450 have been taken off
operation in India. DGCA said “Both IndiGo and GoAir have been told not to
refit these engines, which are spare with them in their inventory".
Moreover Indigo has given passengers the option to either choose another flight
at no additional cost or cancel their booking and GoAir has said that it had complied
straightaway after receiving the directive from the DGCA for immediate
grounding of all late serial number PW GTF engines.
