New Delhi: After Air India, IndiGo will also cut down its wider operations due to expensive jet fuel, longer routes following airspace restrictions and forex volatility. IndiGo will “temporarily cease its flight operations to and from Manchester from August 31, 2026” and return one of the six damp lease (hired along with operating crew) Boeing 787 Dreamliners to Europe’s Norse Atlantic Airways. The budget airline says it will “continue to operate all its remaining long-haul flights as planned.”IndiGo has leased six Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner aircraft from Norse Atlantic in early 2025 to “make strategic inroads to establish the IndiGo brand in the European market, ahead of the launch of services using its own Airbus A350 aircraft.” But it “has become much higher than originally envisioned” due to increased operating costs following the US-Iran war.Abhijit Dasgupta, IndiGo senior vice president (network planning and revenue management, IndiGo) said: “We inducted these wide-body aircraft on a short-term basis to fast-track our connectivity to high potential long-haul destinations like Manchester, and saw a very encouraging demand response. Therefore, it is unfortunate that due to the shortage of airspace with the dramatically increasing costs of flying long haul we have had to temporarily suspend our India – Manchester services. Was forced to take the decision to close. This amputation is temporary in nature.Air India is also making significant cuts to its wider operations for the same reasons. AI and IndiGo are also temporarily reducing domestic flights.