The IndiGo flight operations centre at IGI airport received a call on Monday-Tuesday midnight, just after the airline’s Dubai-Delhi flight landed here via Pakistan airspace. The caller was the director of Pakistan civil aviation authority (CAA). “Janaab, aap abhi tak jag rahein hain (Sir, you are still awake), the IndiGo duty officer who received the director’s call asked him. ‘I was monitoring the flight. It has landed safely. Aapko zubaan di thi (We had given you a word). Eid Mubarak’, the Pakistan CAA director said to our person,” said a senior IndiGo official.
The IndiGo flight operations centre at IGI airport received a call on Monday-Tuesday midnight, just after the airline’s Dubai-Delhi flight landed here via Pakistan airspace. The caller was the director of Pakistan civil aviation authority (CAA). “Janaab, aap abhi tak jag rahein hain (Sir, you are still awake), the IndiGo duty officer who received the director’s call asked him. ‘I was monitoring the flight. It has landed safely. Aapko zubaan di thi (We had given you a word). Eid Mubarak’, the Pakistan CAA director said to our person,” said a senior IndiGo official.