IndiGo had the least number of flight cancellations while national carrier Air India fared the worst between July 2011 to June 2012.

On the other hand, Air India, which faced a 58-day-long strike by its pilots, had the most number of its flights cancelled (3.4%).

Air India was to operate a total of 1,06,334 flights, of which 3,604 flights were cancelled and interestingly, 462 flights were cancelled in April, when there was no internal problem in the airline.

Most of these cancellations were due to technical, operational or commercial reasons apart from bad weather at the departing and destination stations, the official said.

Similarly, Kingfisher Airlines -- once was the second largest airline of the country -- had to cancel around 2.85 per cent of its total flights. The Vijay Mallaya-promoted airline was to operate 82,610 flights, but had to cancel 2,186 flights.

According to official figures, the airline drastically cut its number of flights from 10,891 in July last year to mere 3,110 in June this year as the airline is facing stiff cash crunch and also its aircraft were taken away by lessor after it failed to make payments for them.

Behind Kingfisher was JetLite, the low cost arm of Jet Airways. The airline cancelled 585 flights of a total of 41,674 -- 1.40%.

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