India, Dec. 8 -- The government on Monday informed the Parliament that the IndiGo airlines flagged no issues in a meeting held on December 1, just one day before the airline started cancelling its flights on a large scale.

Responding to a question in Rajya Sabha, civil aviation minister Ram Mohan Naidu blamed IndiGo's "internal system" and defended the Flight Duty Time Limitations (FDTL) that came into effect in November.

"The IndiGo crisis happened due to problems in its crew rostering and internal planning system," Naidu said while answering a question by MP Pramod Tiwari.

Rampant flight cancellations rocked IndiGo on Tuesday afternoon, and continued throughout last week, entering the seventh day on Monday. The airline cancelled over...