Archive · 17 Dec 2025
Court Rejects PIL on IndiGo Compensation
A group called CASC asked the court to make IndiGo and the government pay passengers four times their ticket price because many flights were cancelled.
The court said it was already dealing with a similar case and told the group to join that one instead.
The group said passengers had a lot of trouble with cancelled flights, lost baggage, and no clear information.
The court said it would not take up this new case but allowed the group to join the existing one.
The court had earlier asked the government why it did not act sooner to fix the problem.
Delhi High Court refused to entertain a PIL seeking four times compensation for passengers affected by IndiGo flight cancellations.
The court directed the petitioner to intervene in an existing PIL on the same issue.
The petitioner, CASC, highlighted passenger inconvenience due to flight cancellations, baggage issues, and lack of communication.
The court had previously questioned the government's delay in addressing the IndiGo flight cancellation crisis.
The PIL also sought an inquiry into DGCA's role in the crisis.
- Who
- Centre for Accountability and Systemic Change (CASC) vs. Centre and IndiGo
- What
- PIL seeking increased compensation for passengers affected by IndiGo flight cancellations
- When
- Wednesday (unspecified date)
- Where
- Delhi High Court
- Why
- To address passenger inconvenience due to flight cancellations and seek accountability from DGCA
- Petitioner
- Centre for Accountability and Systemic Change (CASC)
- Court
- Delhi High Court
- Date of Order
- Wednesday (unspecified date)
- Compensation Sought
- Four times the full ticket price for cancelled tickets
- Period of Cancellations
- November and December 2023
- Pending PIL
- Another PIL on IndiGo flight cancellations
Sources
Pilot bodies move Delhi HC against govt’s relaxation of flight duty norms; Centre says it has authority
HC seeks DGCA response on pilot bodies’ plea against relaxation of fatigue rules
Delhi Court Asks Aviation Body To Explain Relaxations In Pilot Fatigue Rules
How IndiGo dominates the night skies — and why it needed a DGCA exemption
Airline crisis and after
IndiGo to speed up training, upgrade of its pilots amid disruptions: Report
Indigo flight crisis: Delhi HC refuses to entertain PIL seeking increased compensation to passengers
Indigo crisis: HC refuses PIL seeking increased compensation to passengers
Delhi HC rejects plea seeking compensation for flyers hit by IndiGo crisis
HC rejects plea on fourfold compensation for IndiGo passengers
IndiGo COO Isidro Porqueras appears before Parliamentary panel probing flight disruptions
