Covid-19: IndiGo plans to restart operations from May 4, slash capacity
India’s largest airline IndiGo is ready to restart operations in a curtailed manner from May 4 and will temperature screen all passengers before boarding.
Chief operating officer (COO) Wolfgang Prock-Scahuer, in an internal memo, asked staff to maintain 1 metre distance from each other and prevent assembling of two people at the same time.
According to a plan shared, the airline will gradually increase capacity in the following months and re-start international routes, depending on government restrictions. The government has extended the lockdown by 20 days, which means airlines will have to stay grounded till May 3. This means zero revenue and creeping fixed costs like salary and lease rentals. All airlines are eager to restart operations.
