Following the flight cancellations, the airline said it has decided to temporarily reduce the number of flights "to ensure adequate connectivity across our network".
Vistara, co-owned by the Tata group and Singapore Airlines, cancelled over 50 flights on Monday. According to its website, the alrline operates over 300 flights a day | Latest News India
The spate of cancellations, due to pilots taking sick leave en masse to protest the terms of their new contracts following the airline s merger with Air India, has prompted the Union Civil Aviation Ministry to seek a detailed report from Vistara.
The airline has around 800 pilots and the senior first officers who resigned had completed their conversion training that allowed them to operate wide-body Boeing 787 planes, PTI reported.
The Federation of Indian Pilots (FIP) has written to Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya M. Scindia. alleging that the DGCA has amended the regulation for 'Consecutive Night Operation', and deleted the existing proviso, in the revised Civil .