India, Dec. 5 -- IndiGo CEO Pieter Elbers, in a video statement released on Friday, apologised for the thousands of flight disruptions across airports in India and said that on Saturday, the flight cancellations are expected to be below 1,000.

He also said that it will "take some time" for the flight operations to get back to normal, which is expected between December 10-15.

"Given the size, scale and complexity of our operations, it will take some time to return to a full normal situation, which we anticipate between 10 and 15 December," he said in the video.

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Acknowledging that Friday, December 5, was the most severely impacted day due to the number of IndiGo flight cancellation...