The Legacy Code Trap: Why New Rules Crashed India's Biggest Airline
The Observation We are witnessing an operational meltdown in Indian aviation. Flights are cancelled, pilots are exhausted, and passengers are stranded. The media is blaming the dense fog. But if you look closer, the fog was just the trigger. The gun was loaded by the new DGCA Flight Duty Time Limitations (FDTL) norms introduced in January 2024. IndiGo, a machine built for precision, suddenly looked like it didn’t know how to run an airline. Why? Because the underlying logic of their resource allocation broke overnight. ...