IndiGo CEO back in the DGCA dock

IndiGo CEO has been summoned by the aviation regulator again on Friday, according to a regulatory filing by the company. Pieter Elbers was summoned by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on Thursday and asked to submit a report on the flight disruptions. He reached the DGCA office around 2.24pm, and left after a little over two hours at 4.45pm.

Meanwhile, passengers of the IndiGo Airlines who were left stranded at the airports between December 3 and 5 will be given a travel voucher worth Rs10,000 valid for 12 months. The compensation would be in addition to flight cancellations charges under DGCA norms.

In another development, JD(U) leader KC Tyagi has alleged complicity between the DGCA and airlines, saying he was forced to shell out an inordinate sum of over Rs40,000 for aDelhi-Mumbai flight. In a letter to party colleague Sajay Jha, who is the Chairman of the Parliamentary panel on tourism, Tyagi said he became a victim of Air India’s “arbitrary charging.”