No pay cut in April for most employees, says IndiGo

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

New Delhi:24.04.2020

At a time when salary cuts and layoffs are being witnessed across all sectors, IndiGo has decided to pay full salary for April to a majority of its employees. Last month, the low-cost carrier (LCC) had announced graded pay cuts of up to 25%, while sparing the junior most workers.

“In deference to our government’s wishes of not reducing pay during lockdown, we have decided not to implement the previously announced pay cuts during the month of April. However, your (senior) members and senior VPs have volunteered to take pay cuts this month. For everyone else, you can expect your April salaries to be paid without the pay cuts,” IndiGo CEO Ronojoy Dutta told employees in a mail on Thursday. In an earlier mail sent on March19, 2020, Dutta had detailed the cuts: 25% for himself; 20% for senior VPs and above; 15% for VPs and pilots; 10% for cabin crew; 5% for others and no cuts for those drawing salary at junior levels. IndiGo’s employee cost was Rs 3,211crore in fiscal 2018-19.

In his Thursday mail, Dutta advised employees to not “spend too much time thinking about things that we have no control over; it is more effective to focus all our energies on the forces on which we exercise a great deal of control” like personal health and cost-cutting. The airline recently lost an employee to coronavirus. “Right now, we have little control over our revenues and a lot of control over our costs and therefore that is where we are focusing all our energies… Our one source of revenue generation right now is in cargo operations,” Dutta says in his mail.

The airline is focusing on flying experience when the same resumes.