India Antitrust Body to Probe IndiGo’s Flight Cancellations
A screen showing cancelled IndiGo flights inside Terminal 1 of Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi in Dec. 2025.
Photographer: Ritesh Shukla/Getty ImagesIndia’s antitrust watchdog will investigate whether InterGlobe Aviation Ltd., which operates IndiGo, abused its dominant position after mass cancellation of flights in December by the country’s largest airline unleashed travel chaos.
IndiGo, which has about two-thirds market share in domestic aviation market, “effectively withheld its service from the market, creating an artificial scarcity, limiting consumer access to air travel during peak demand,” the Competition Commission of India, or CCI, said in an order on Wednesday.