Saturday, 30 May 2026

IndiGo disclosed in its FY26 results commentary that the ongoing West Asia conflict directly impacted roughly one in five seats it operates, forcing flight cancellations and rerouting to Dubai and other Middle East destinations between mid-March and late March 2026; HSBC estimated the disruption accounted for approximately 20% of IndiGo's capacity on affected routes, with some analysts pegging the total network impact at 12% of ASKs due to longer flight paths and elevated ATF burn.

Divye Bokdia, Head of Design for ITOps and JSM Services at Atlassian — with prior stints scaling design at Amazon, NVIDIA, and Upstox — articulates a practitioner view on how AI is reshaping design leadership: less about craft execution and more about systems thinking, AI literacy, and the ability to operate without clear role boundaries. His career arc from IIT Guwahati's early design programme through building Upstox's design team from 3 to 50+ people offers a concrete template for how design organisations mature in high-velocity product environments.