Automobile

IndiGo’s blues: Why engine troubles can send India’s biggest airline sputtering into turbulence.

By Eduardo Saverin

An Indigo aircraft flying to its destination, in Assam, India, on July 27, 2023.

Synopsis

Though IndiGo has been grappling with engine troubles for some time now, the expectation was that Pratt & Whitney’s recall will have ‘minimal’ impact on the airline’s fleet. But that may no longer be the case if an advisory by the engine maker, which is yet to be made public, is anything to go by.

Earlier this month, Bindi Bhatia, who was returning to Mumbai with her elderly parents on an IndiGo flight after visiting the famous Shrinathji temple in Rajasthan’s Nathdwara, was in for the shock of her life. Nearly 20 minutes after take-off from the Udaipur airport, as the seat-belt sign had gone off and Bhatia was about to recline her seat and relax, she heard a huge thud. “A deafening boom and a violent jerk shook the plane,” the

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Eduardo Saverin