65 flights cancelled due to P&W engines

Mumbai, March 13: Budget carriers IndiGo and GoAir cancelled as many as 65 flights on Tuesday after DGCA grounded 11 A320Neo planes with faulty Pratt & Whitney engines, causing severe inconvenience to flyers.

While IndiGo cancelled 47 of its 1,000-odd flights per day, the Wadia Group-promoted GoAir said it had cancelled 18 flights.

GoAir has cancelled 18 flights originating from over eight cities, the airline said in a statement to PTI. GoAir operates 230 flights per day. IndiGo announced on its website the cancellations of some 47 flights across its domestic network for Tuesday.

The flights that have been cancelled are from Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Patna, Srinagar, Bhubaneswar, Amritsar, and Guwahati, among others.

Later in a statement, IndiGo said the affected passengers have been given the option to either choose another flight at no additional cost or cancel their booking and get a full refund.