IndiGo Adjusts Wide-body Network to Enhance Operational Resilience and Schedule Reliability

IndiGo, India’s preferred carrier, has announced adjustments and schedule revisionin its long-haul network to ensure seamless and reliable operations for the convenience of its customers. Recently IndiGo’s widebody operation has faced external operational constraints; continuously changing airspace constraints due to geo-political circumstances, congestion at airports both in India and abroad. These factors significantly increased flight and block times causing strain over the airline’s 787-9 schedule that is operated with six wide-body aircraft. With the objective of avoiding inconvenience to customers due to misconnections and cascading delays, IndiGo has decided to take some immediate measures to restore operational reliability in terms of on-time performance for its widebody operation.

Basis thorough review of all the above factors, the airline will introduce the following changes to its wide-body network.

·         Starting 17 February 2026, IndiGo will suspend its operations to and from Copenhagentill further notice.

·         From 07February 2026, IndiGo will reduce its Delhi – Manchester services from 5 flights per week to 4flights per week, and further reduce to 3 flights per week from 19 February 2026;thus reducing its total connectivity to/from Manchester from 9 weekly to 7 weekly services. This scale adjustment was originally planned to be introduced in the Summer Schedule 2026; however, it is being executed earlier to ensure reliability to the rest of IndiGo’s long-haul operations.

o    To ensure optimal availability of recovery time in operating patterns, the days of operations will also be adjusted as per below.

Schedule of Flights between Mumbai/ Delhi and Manchester post the network adjustments, effective 19February 2026

·         With effect from 09 February 2026, IndiGo’s Delhi – London Heathrow services will be adjusted from 5x weekly to 4x weekly flights, for the current Winter Schedule

Schedule of Flights between Delhi and London Heathrow post the network adjustments, effective 09 February 2026

IndiGo is proactively reaching out to the affected customers to offer alternative flights or issue timely refunds and compensation as per the applicable rules.

As part of IndiGo’s ongoing Internationalisation journey, the airline had started a widebody project in March 2025, by executing a damp lease arrangement of six Boeing 787-9 aircraft from Norse Atlantic Airways. This project was set up as an intermediate solution for global expansion and a pre-cursor to IndiGo’s own A350-900 widebody inductions in early 2028, to gradually upgrade the airline’s internal capabilities for the larger expansion in future.

IndiGo regrets that the prevailing circumstances have affected the airline’s operational reliability on its 787-9 routes. By making these adjustments to its schedule the airline strives to improve reliability of its long-haul services and reduce disruption to connecting itineraries booked by its customers. IndiGo will continue monitoring these external developments and flexibly scale its network up or down to align with evolving conditions.