IndiGo fiasco is cost of govt's monopoly model: Rahul Gandhi

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday alleged that the IndiGo fiasco is the cost of this governments monopoly model and asserted that India deserves fair competition in every sector not matchfixing monopoliesIn the wake of IndiGo cancelling over 550 flights on Thursday alone and 400 flights on Friday disrupting the travel plans of hundreds of passengers Gandhi said it is ordinary Indians who pay the price in delays cancellations and helplessnessIndiGo fiasco is the cost of this Govts monopoly model Once again its ordinary Indians who pay the price in delays cancellations and helplessness the Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha said in a post on XIndiGo fiasco is the cost of this Govtrsquos monopoly model Once again itrsquos ordinary Indians who pay the price in delays cancellations and helplessnessIndia deserves fair competition in every sector not matchfixing monopolies httpstcosRoigepFgvmdash Rahul Gandhi RahulGandhi December 5 2025India deserves fair competition in every sector not matchfixing monopolies Gandhi assertedThe former Congress president also shared his article from last year in which he had said that the original East India Company wound up over 150 years ago but the raw fear it then generated is back with a new breed of monopolists having taken its placeHe had asserted that a new deal for progressive Indian business is an idea whose time has comeSharing the article on X on November 6 last year Gandhi had said Choose your India PlayFair or Monopoly Jobs or Oligarchies Competence or Connections Innovation or Intimidation Wealth for many or the fewI write on why a New Deal for Business isnt just an option It is Indias future he had said sharing his opinion pieceIndiGo on Thursday told aviation watchdog DGCA that operations are expected to be fully stabilised by February 10 2026 and sought temporary relaxations in flight duty norms on a day when the countrys largest airline cancelled more than 550 flights disrupting the travel plans of hundreds of passengersAcknowledging that the flight disruptions happening for the past few days are primarily due to misjudgment and planning gaps in implementing the second phase of the Flight Duty Time Limitations FDTL norms IndiGo also informed the regulator that there will be more cancellations till December 8 and from that day there will also be a reduction in servicesCivil Aviation Minister K Rammohan Naidu had held a highlevel review meeting to assess the situation of significant flight disruptions and expressed his displeasure at the way IndiGo handled the new FDTL norms implementation despite having ample timeWith inputs from Agencies