How IndiGo faced a Rs 100 cr fine for cancellations but managed to dodge it

It was the first week of December. Just as Parliament convened for the Winter Session, hot winds blew across airports in India. IndiGo, the country’s largest airline, experienced an unprecedented operational meltdown, leading to mass cancellations of flights impacting close to a million flyers. It was a political tightrope that aviation minister Ram Mohan Naidu had never walked before.
This stood in sharp contrast to expectations. December was meant to be a month of recovery, one that would push the horrifying memories of the June Air India crash into the past as passenger traffic surged.