A total of 629 flights of IndiGo were cancelled between December 1 and December 9 at the Chennai airport and a total of 1,317 flights were delayed.
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Chennai airport has suffered a minor dip in the revenue following the mayhem caused by the recent flight cancellations by IndiGo.
M. Raja Kishore, Chennai airport director, Airports Authority of India (AAI) said, while there have been losses to the revenue this past week, he said, they are yet to ascertain the exact value. “This disruption was only for a few days. The impact of this issue on AAI will not be as much,” he said. The airport operations are steadily returning to normalcy, he added.
From a total of 186 flight cancellations on December 5, the number of cancellations have come down to 70 flights on Wednesday. AAI officials said, the operations will return to normalcy in a couple of days.
A total of 629 flights of IndiGo were cancelled between December 1 and 9 at the Chennai airport and a total of 1,317 flights were delayed, according to the data released by AAI.
On Wednesday, Ambuj Sharma, deputy secretary, Ministry of Civil Aviation inspected the Chennai airport along with the AAI officials. Following the IndiGo’s flight cancellations fiasco, the ministry had nominated a team of officials to inspect major airports in the country including Chennai, Bengaluru, Ahmedabad, Mumbai, Pune and Hyderabad to take stock of the ground reality and check if the flight operations had returned to normalcy.
He said he took feedback from some of the passengers. While most of the passengers were happy with the airport, a few of them raised issues regarding toilet maintenance and the walk to the multi-level car parking facility to board cabs, he said.
Published – December 11, 2025 05:30 am IST
