IndiGo has introduced adjustments in its schedule of long-haul flight routes together with suspending providers to Copenhagen from 17 February, because the airline seeks to sort out exterior operational constraints.
As a part of the changes, necessitated by Iranian airspace uncertainties and congestion at airports, the finances service on Wednesday stated it is going to additionally cut back flights on Delhi–London Heathrow and Delhi–Manchester routes.
Which flights could possibly be affected?
The flights to and from Copenhagen (Denmark) might be suspended from February 17 until additional discover. At present, the airline operates providers between Mumbai and Copenhagen 3 times every week.
From February 7, the service will cut back its Delhi–Manchester providers to 4 occasions every week from 5 occasions per week. On this route, the variety of flights might be reduce to 3 occasions per week from February 19.
Additional, Delhi-London Heathrow providers might be reduce to 4 from 5 per week for the present winter schedule ranging from February 9, stated IndiGo.
| Sector | Flight No. | Days of Operation | Departure (Timings in native time zone) | Arrival(Timings in native time zone) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Delhi – Manchester | 6E 0033 | Monday, Thursday, Sunday | 03:05 | 09:15 |
| Manchester – Delhi | 6E 0034 | Monday, Wednesday, Thursday | 11:15 | 03:45 (+1) |
| Mumbai – Manchester | 6E 0031 | Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Saturday | 03:55 | 09:15 |
| Manchester – Mumbai | 6E 0032 | Monday, Tuesday, Saturday, Sunday | 11:40 | 03:10 (+1 |
| Delhi – London Heathrow | 6E 0003 | Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday | 09:40 | 14:55 |
| London Heathrow – Delhi | 6E 0004 | Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday | 17:15 | 08:15 (+1) |
In a press release, the airline stated its wide-body operation has confronted exterior operational constraints similar to constantly altering airspace constraints as a consequence of geopolitical circumstances, congestion at airports each in India and overseas.
Why the impression in providers – what IndiGo stated?
IndiGo stated the measures are being taken to keep away from inconvenience to passengers as a consequence of misconnections and cascading delays.
“These components considerably elevated flight and block occasions inflicting pressure over the airline’s 787-9 schedule that’s operated with six wide-body plane,” it stated.
“This scale adjustment was initially deliberate to be launched in the summertime schedule 2026; nonetheless, it’s being executed earlier to make sure reliability to the remainder of IndiGo’s long-haul operations,” the assertion stated.
Based on the airline, the prevailing circumstances have affected the operational reliability on its Boeing 787-9 routes and added that it could proceed monitoring these exterior developments and flexibly scale its community up or right down to align with evolving circumstances.
In March 2025, the airline began the wide-body venture and determined to take six Boeing 787-9 plane from Norse Atlantic Airways on damp lease.
“This venture was arrange as an intermediate answer for world growth and a pre-cursor to IndiGo’s personal A350-900 wide-body inductions in early 2028, to steadily improve the airline’s inside capabilities for the bigger growth in future,” the assertion stated.
In the meantime, on Tuesday, IndiGo stated it has cancelled flights to and from Tbilisi (Georgia), Almaty (Kazakhstan), Tashkent (Uzbekistan) and Baku (Azerbaijan) until February 28.
Earlier, the providers to those cities had been cancelled until February 11 because of the prevailing scenario in Iran.
“Because the scenario continues to evolve, our plans stay underneath common assessment,” the airline stated in a submit on X on Tuesday.
For these locations, the airline flies over the Iranian airspace and because of the present scenario, it’s avoiding the area.
Usually, the period of flights from India to those cities is within the vary of six to seven hours. The airline operates flights with its A320neo plane on these routes that shouldn’t have the vary and fuel-holding capability to function on longer various routes.
Tensions have escalated between Iran and the US, and there are apprehensions that the scenario may end in a army battle.
The airline, which confronted large operational disruptions in early December, operates round 2,200 flights every day with a fleet of over 400 planes.