Passengers stranded at Hyderabad airport as IndiGo cancellations continue

Hardeep Singh stood outside the terminal at Hyderabad’s Rajiv Gandhi International Airport on Saturday (December 6, 2025), wiping his face as he tried to speak. The 43 year old had been pacing between the IndiGo counter and the waiting area for hours, clutching his phone, replaying the same videos again and again. “My house has caught fire,” he said, breaking down each time the images from Srinagar flashed on his screen. “My house is burning and here I am stuck some 2000 kilometres away from home.”

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He had travelled to Hyderabad for work and was now desperate for a flight back to his family. “I need a flight to go back home. How will they manage that situation without me?” he said, joining the hundreds gathered at the airport seeking answers about cancellations and alternative travel options.

His ordeal reflected the chaos many passengers faced as IndiGo’s mass cancellations entered their fourth consecutive day in Hyderabad. On Saturday (December 6, 2025), 69 flights were cancelled at RGIA, including 43 departures and 26 arrivals.

Bhargavi, who was travelling from Mumbai to Vijayawada via Hyderabad, said her delayed arrival caused her to miss her connecting flight. She stood in a long queue at the IndiGo counter, waiting for an assurance that another flight would be arranged.

Across the terminal stood Gentrye and Ryan, travellers from the United States who had spent nearly three weeks touring India. Their flight from Hyderabad to Varanasi was cancelled, disrupting their onward journey. “We had to travel to Jamshedpur from Varanasi for a wedding, but now with this cancellation, we are planning either to book a train or cab directly to Jamshedpur,” they said.

Another passenger, Tarun Singha, recalled a similarly disorienting set of events. After completing DigiYatra formalities, he received a message informing him that his departure had been rescheduled to an earlier time. But when he reached the security checkpoint at Hyderabad airport, he discovered the flight had been cancelled altogether.

Rajesh Gupta, who was travelling to Kolkata, said the information displayed at the airport added to the confusion. His flight continued to show as “on time” on the screen, even as an announcement at the gate informed passengers of a delay of one and a half hours. “Even booking tickets at higher fares offered no certainty of travel,” he said.

Amid the widespread disruptions and the difficulty passengers faced in securing alternative connections, regional carrier FLY91 announced temporary relief. The airline introduced additional flights between Hyderabad and Goa for the next three days to support stranded travellers. According to the release, the services will operate as a daily round trip, with flight IC seven thousand and one departing Hyderabad at 8:30 p.m. and reaching Goa at 10:10 p.m. The return flight, IC seven thousand and two, will leave Goa at 10:35 p.m. and land in Hyderabad at 12:15 a.m.

For passengers like Hardeep Singh, however, every passing minute felt heavier. The fires in Srinagar would not wait for the cancellations in Hyderabad to ease, and neither would the fear of being too far away when his family needed him most.