IndiGo Confirms No Deduction of Salaries or Leaves of Employees During Domestic Flight Suspension

Budget provider IndiGo has assured its staff that it’s going to not make any deduction of their salaries or leaves as a result of suspension of home flights until March 31. The authorities’s resolution to droop home flight would come into impact from midnight Tuesday, as a part of bigger efforts to curb spreading of coronavirus infections.

In an e-mail to his staff, IndiGo Chief govt Officer Ronojoy Dutta mentioned the corporate has “reasonable” stage of superior bookings for April and it was “anxious’ to fly again albeit with a reduced capacity. “For those that do not must be working throughout this momentary suspension of operations, we are going to make no deduction of salaries or leaves,” Dutta said in the e-mail.

PTI has accessed the e-mail. Stating that the last few days have been very challenging for the airline, he said “clearly for the subsequent few weeks our revenues will probably be nicely beneath our prices and we should make our efforts to penny-pinch and protect money”.

He additionally mentioned that as staff “allow us to even be acutely cognizant of the truth that throughout this momentary suspension of operations, we will probably be spending our money reserves to proceed to pay salaries and advantages”. Once this disaster is over, the airline should redouble its efforts to rebuild these money reserves, Dutta added.