IndiGo airlines has said that there will be no meal service for passengers once flight operation resumes post lockdown period.
IndiGo CEO Ronojoy Dutta has said that there will be no meal service for passengers for some time once the flight services resume post lockdown. Also, there will be only 50 per cent occupancy of passengers in airport buses. In situations like these, companies do not manage to growth or profitability but to liquidity. That means our singular focus is on cash flow. We are examining all our fixed costs and looking for ways to minimize them. Dutta said IndiGo's plan post lockdown will be going forward to first start the services and gradually ramp up the capacity.
"We have always been very safety conscious and now we must be health-conscious as well. With this in mind, we are looking at changing many of our operating procedures. The new set of procedures have not been finalized yet. "But we will deep clean our aircraft more frequently, we will be discontinue meal service for a brief period and we will run our coaches (Airport buses) at a maximum load of 50% capacity. We will be coming out with the new set of operating procedures very soon," Dutta said in an email to employees on Friday, which has been accessed by PTI.
India has imposed a 21-day lockdown till April 14 to curb the coronavirus pandemic. Consequently, all domestic and international commercial passenger flights have been suspended for this time period. However, cargo flights, offshore helicopter operations, medical evacuation flights and special flights permitted by Indian aviation regulator DGCA are permitted to operate during the lockdown.
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