New Delhi, Dec. 5 -- A Redditor found a silver lining in the ongoing IndiGo disruption, which led to hundreds of flight cancellations in the last four days.

The airline has attributed the chaos that led to over 550 flight cancellations to a crew shortage, saying that it expects to return to normal operations by 10 February 2026. It also requested a temporary relaxation of certain DGCA rules.

The Indore resident shared that he had booked an IndiGo flight to Bangkok, Thailand, from New Delhi. However, instead of booking the flight for February, as planned, the Redditor accidentally made reservations for December - a mistake he didn't realise until the airline cancelled the flight.

"So I have a flight on 5th Feb (midnight) to Bangkok from...