India's biggest airline faces another day of delays and cancellations.

Live from the UK, this is the Marketplace Morning Report from the BBC World Service.

I'm William Lee Adams. Good morning.

Major airports in India have descended into chaos after the airline Indigo either cancelled or delayed hundreds of flights for the fourth consecutive day.

Archina Shukla has been following the story from Mumbai. Hi, Archina. Hi, William. So what's

behind this? Well, you know, Indigo, which is India's largest airline, has been canceling multiple

flights every day for the last few days. In fact, flight cancellations have picked up to

170 to 200 flights being

cancelled a day, which is leaving thousands of travellers stuck at airports across the country.

There's chaos at every single airport. In fact, even today, all the domestic flights out of

the capital city of New Delhi have been cancelled. Now, why this is happening is because

Indigo says there have been certain technical issues with aircrafts or winter schedules that

has delayed some of their flight schedules. But the biggest reason is because of a pilot shortage.

Now, the government had come up with some new crew rostering rules which gives more rest time to pilots

and reduces nighttime flying all the airlines were supposed to adhere to that by the first of

November and indigo has failed to you know quickly adapt to it and right now it's facing

pilot shortages and hence is leading with these cancellations. We are not seeing

these type of cancellations with the other airlines like Air India or Akasa. When are

things likely to get back to normal? Indigo has said that it would take at least till February

to get its operations sorted and adhere to the timelines and the rules and regulations with the new

crew rostering rules. For the next two days, the spate of cancellations will continue, they've

said. And from 8th of December, they are going to cut back their flight operations. Now, this means

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