A crowd gathers outside the IndiGo counter at the Hyderabad airport on December 6, 2025. Photo credit: G. Ramakrishna
Hardeep Singh stood outside the terminal at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in Hyderabad on Saturday (December 6, 2025), wiping his face as he tried to speak. The 43-year-old spent hours pacing between the IndiGo counter and the waiting room, clutching his phone and playing the same videos over and over again.
“My house is on fire,” he said, breaking down every time images of Srinagar appeared on his screen. “My house is on fire and I’m stuck here about 2,000 kilometers from home.
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He had traveled to Hyderabad for work and was now desperate for a flight back to his family. “I need a flight to get home. How are they going to handle this situation without me?” he said, joining hundreds gathered at the airport seeking answers about the cancellations and alternative travel options.
His ordeal reflected the chaos faced by many passengers as IndiGo’s mass cancellations entered the fourth consecutive day in Hyderabad. On Saturday (December 6, 2025), 69 flights were canceled at RGIA, including 43 departures and 26 arrivals.
Bhargavi, who was traveling from Mumbai to Vijayawada via Hyderabad, said her delayed arrival caused her to miss her connecting flight. She was standing in a long queue at the IndiGo counter waiting for an assurance that another flight would be arranged.
On the other side of the terminal stood Gentrye and Ryan, travelers from the United States who had spent nearly three weeks traveling around India. Their flight from Hyderabad to Varanasi was cancelled, disrupting their onward journey. We had to travel to Jamshedpur from Varanasi for the wedding but now with this cancellation we plan to either book a train or a cab directly to Jamshedpur, they said.
Another passenger, Tarun Singha, recalled a similarly disorienting sequence of events. After completing the DigiYatra formalities, he received a message informing him that his departure has been postponed. But when he reached the security check at the Hyderabad airport, he found that the flight was completely cancelled.
Rajesh Gupta, who was traveling 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 though the gate announcement informed passengers of a one and a half hour delay. “Even booking tickets at higher prices did not offer any travel security,” he said.
Amid widespread disruption and difficulties passengers faced in securing alternative connections, regional carrier FLY91 announced temporary relief. The airline has introduced additional flights between Hyderabad and Goa for the next three days to support the stranded passengers. According to the release, the services will operate as a daily return flight, with flight IC 7001 departing Hyderabad at 20:30 and arriving Goa at 22:10. Return flight IC 7002 departs Goa at 22:35 and lands in Hyderabad at 00:15.
But for passengers like Hardeep Singh, every minute was getting tougher. The Srinagar fires didn’t wait for the cancellation in Hyderabad to ease, as did the fear of being too far away when his family needed him most.
Published – 06 Dec 2025 13:24 IST
