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Despite enough warnings, no alarm bells were rung. The buck now stops with Rahul Bhatia, the promoter and managing director of India’s largest airline that is facing its biggest crisis ever.

A drop in employee costs, despite the need to hire pilots under the new DGCA norms, raises fresh concerns about IndiGo’s staffing, and its vulnerability to a December 2025-scale disruption.
Nearly four years after the unsavoury incident that created a national furore, the alleged offender’s life has come undone. He has been defeated by a system that does not deem him worthy of transparency or a chance at finding closure.
Investors have backed the founder’s move to ease out the airline’s CEO and take charge in the interim. But they should be worried about the airline’s dependence on him.