DGCA has ordered IndiGo to cut its planned flights by 5% on high-capacity routes during winter, as it looked to bring some order at India’s biggest airline, which cancelled thousands of flights nationwide after failing to plan for tighter safety regulations.

As part of the winter schedule for 2025-26, the airline has been operating over 2,200 flights per day.

The latest order is part of a suite of actions by authorities that followed IndiGo, which controls over 65% of the market share, cancelling more than 4,000 flights since December 2 that left tens of thousands of passengers stranded, upending their vacation plans, important meetings and weddings.

DGCA, which previously issued a show cause notice to IndiGo’s chief executive and chief operating officer to explain the disruptions, has set up a four-member panel to probe the lapses.

The regulator, in the fresh notice, said that IndiGo’s winter schedule shows that the airline has increased its departures by 9.66% from last year, while the same relation to its summer schedule is set to rise by 6.05%