IndiGo airlines operator InterGlobe Aviation Ltd. will not deduct salary of its employees or their leaves due to suspension of domestic flights till March 31.
All domestic flight operations will be suspended from midnight today, as part of the government's efforts to curb the spread of coronavirus in India.
In an email to IndiGo employees, InterGlobe Aviation's Chief executive Officer Ronojoy Dutta said the company has "reasonable" level of advanced bookings for April and was "anxious" to fly again—albeit with a reduced capacity. "For those who don't have to be working during this temporary suspension of operations, we will make no deduction of salaries or leaves," Dutta said in the email seen by the Press Trust of India.
“Clearly, for the next few weeks, our revenues will be well below our costs and we will have to make our efforts to penny-pinch and preserve cash,” Dutta said in the email.
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As employees, "let us also be acutely cognizant of the fact that during this temporary suspension of operations, we will be spending our cash reserves to continue to pay salaries and benefits", he said. Once this crisis is over, the airline will have to double its efforts to rebuild these cash reserves, he added.
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