SpiceJet aircraft landing in New Delhi, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
SpiceJet, Air India Express flights hit by hours-long delays
Multiple domestic flights faced delays of up to 14 hours today, including SpiceJet services from Jaipur and Kochi and Air India Express flights from Amritsar and Kochi.
SpiceJet and Air India Express flights were hit by hours-long delays today across several Indian routes.
A SpiceJet flight from Kochi saw a nearly 14-hour delay with departure moved to the next day, while a SpiceJet flight from Jaipur was delayed almost 12 hours.
Air India Express services from Amritsar and Kochi faced delays of close to 12 hours and over two hours respectively.
An Air India flight from New Delhi was delayed by about 1.5 hours as part of the same disruption.
The delays come amid a broader wave of Asian aviation disruption on September 11 and 12, which saw 4,804 flights delayed and 206 cancelled, with Delhi’s IGI Airport logging 475 delayed departures.
Extended delays of this length typically trigger compensation or rebooking obligations for airlines under India’s civil aviation passenger charter, depending on the specific circumstances of each flight.
The Bengaluru–Vijayawada Air India route has also seen recent delay reports, adding to a pattern of disruption across the carrier’s domestic network this month.
Ground handling and crew scheduling pressures have been cited in some recent Indian aviation disruptions, though airlines have not confirmed this as a specific cause for Saturday’s delays.
Passengers travelling on affected routes were advised to check their flight status directly with airlines given the scale and unpredictability of the ongoing disruptions.
The delays come days after a separate wave of disruption swept Asian aviation hubs on September 11 and 12, when 4,804 flights were delayed and 206 cancelled across the region.
Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport was among the worst-hit in that broader regional disruption, logging 475 delayed departures over the two-day period.
Passengers on the affected Amritsar and Jaipur flights faced waits of nearly 12 hours before departure, with some SpiceJet passengers from Kochi seeing their flight pushed to the following day.
SpiceJet aircraft landing in New Delhi, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0