IndiGo flights begin to depart from Chennai airport, but spate of cancellations continues

Although IndiGo saw continued flight cancellations from Chennai airport, some flights still departed from the city on Saturday (December 6, 2025) morning.

There were delays, but from 3 a.m. onwards, flights to cities including Pune, Ahmedabad, Guwahati, Bhubaneswar, Jaipur, Coimbatore, and Kochi departed from the city airport.

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Officials of the Airports Authority of India (AAI) said that as of 10.30 a.m., 93 flights are scheduled to be operated by IndiGo from Chennai airport on Saturday, and 48 flights have been cancelled. The cancelled flights included services to Guwahati, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Pune, Coimbatore, Bengaluru, Port Blair, Lucknow, Visakhapatnam, Kolkata, Patna, Kochi, and Thiruvananthapuram.

“An updated list of flights which will depart from the airport has been given by the airline to the CISF [Central Industrial Security Force] and AAI. Only passengers of those flights are allowed inside the terminal,” a source said.