What happened
While the nation celebrated the inauguration of the high-tech 'Seva Teerth' PMO complex designed for peak administrative efficiency, the Indian aviation sector achieved its own version of 'Viksit Bharat' by paralyzing 1,369 flights in a single day. With a staggering 99.3% delay rate, airports in Delhi, Mumbai, and Bengaluru successfully transformed from transit hubs into massive sleepover camps. The Airport Authority of India cited 'air-traffic sequencing constraints'—a fancy bureaucratic term for 'everyone arrived at once and nobody knows whose turn it is'—proving that while the government can move into a new office in record time, your flight to a 2-hour meeting will still take 14 business days to depart.