IndiGo employee dies of coronavirus infection
India | April 11, 2020 21:52 ISTBudget carrier IndiGo on Saturday said one of its staff passed away due to coronavirus infection in Chennai.
Budget carrier IndiGo on Saturday said one of its staff passed away due to coronavirus infection in Chennai.
The Indian airlines are currently grounded but they slightly eased the tense situation with a witty Twitter thread on Friday.
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.
Amid the nationwide lockdown implemented to contain the spread of novel coronavirus in India, budget carrier IndiGo said on Wednesday it is suspending its international flights till April 30.
Budget airline IndiGo on Tuesday said that it is in the process of operating more than 30 relief flights "free of cost" to aide the Centre's efforts in curbing COVID-19.
IndiGo on Wednesday said that it has offered Union Civil Aviation Ministry its "resources, aircraft and crew" to transport medicine, equipment and relief material from one part of the country to another.
IndiGo CEO Ronojoy Dutta said on Tuesday that the airline would not be charging any fee for cancelling tickets that are up to April 30, and it would store the ticket price as credit on that PNR, which can be used for alternative booking up to September 30.
Budget carrier IndiGo has assured its employees that it will not make any deduction in their salaries or leaves due to the suspension of domestic flights till March 31.
India's largest airline IndiGo said that one of its maintenance managers died at the Delhi Airport on Saturday due to cardiac arrest after disembarking from a flight from Indonesia.
IndiGo has been forced to ground 30 planes in its fleet of 258 aircraft following the government's decision to bar international flights for a week as part of measures to deal with the coronavirus outbreak, a source said on Friday.
Government-owned Air India may cut the salary of employees by 5 per cent amid its growing financial woes particularly in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, which has nearly grounded its entire international operations, sources said. The reduction will be across the board, they say.
IndiGo CEO Ronojoy Dutta on Thursday announced pay cut for all employees, will himself take 25 per cent cut in salary, amid coronavirus pandemic.
Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA )on Tuesday announced that IndiGo will be cancelling its flights on Delhi-Istanbul route and Chennai-Kuala Lumpur route from March 18 to March 31, as the aviation regulator has restricted international traffic from Turkey and Malaysia.
IndiGo on Saturday said it will cancel some of its flights to the UAE after the Gulf country announced that it would suspend all entry visas, except diplomatic visas, from March 17 in view of the coronavirus pandemic.
Airline stocks plunged into deep red on Friday due to the ongoing travel restrictions in the wake of coronavirus outbreak.
IndiGo's parent InterGlobe Aviation on Wednesday said its quarterly earnings are expected to be hit due to decline in daily bookings, amid the coronavirus outbreak.
Private airline IndiGo has canceled all flights to Doha till March 17 following travel ban imposed by Qatar on Indian nationals, amid coronavirus scare.
Budget carrier IndiGo on Saturday announced waiving of cancellation and rescheduling charges on flight bookings till March 31 due to the situation arising out of the coronavirus outbreak.
Under UDAN scheme, budget airline IndiGo on Saturday launched daily direct flights on the Agartala-Aizawl-Guwahati route, facilitating passengers to travel among the northeastern states.
Stand up comedian Kunal Kamra on Thursday said he was neither sorry nor regretful of his actions, hours after IndiGo's internal panel decided to reduce the flying ban to three months. The reduction in ban period was informed by Indigo to the Delhi High Court on Thursday.
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