New Delhi, Jan. 22 -- Is India's civil aviation crunch a thing of the past? Signals from IndiGo, the airline around which last month's crisis of flight cancellations swirled, suggest it will soon be. As do public assurances of a return to normalcy from this sector's regulator.

IndiGo has assured the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) of its compliance with new pilot-fatigue-reduction norms by 10 February.

The air-carrier said that it would be ready to operate a stable schedule without the rule exemptions it was granted after its failure to run flights threw air traffic into chaos.

To meet this aim, IndiGo had earlier outlined a plan to recruit pilots. But its latest pledge follows a regulatory rap on its knuckles from the DGC...