The COVID-19-induced economic turbulence has led airline major IndiGo to decide to lay off 10% of its workforce.
According to Ronojoy Dutta, CEO, IndiGo, the company, after carefully assessing and reviewing all possible scenarios, will require to bid "a painful adieu" to 10 % of its around 27,000-strong workforce.
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"It is for the first time in the history of IndiGo that we have undertaken such a painful measure. This is indeed a very unfortunate turn of events from the optimistic growth trajectory we had carved out for ourselves just six months ago; but this pandemic has forced us to re-evaluate our best laid plans.
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"To help the impacted employees' tide over the uncertainties emanating from this decision, IndiGo has created a '6E Care package'."
Dutta said the current pandemic has impacted many industries around the world, amongst which aviation has been one of the sectors that has been impacted the hardest.
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"Even now, IndiGo is flying only a small percentage of its full fleet of 250 airplanes," he said.
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