Indigo Airline will refund all passengers whose flights had been cancelled due to the coronavirus-induced lockdown, by January 31, 2021, the budget carrier announced in a statement on Monday.
Indigo said it has been actively clearing payments against all pending credit shells since it resumed operations in May. Approximately Rs 1,000 crore or 90% of the refunds have been credited so far, the company said.
Indigo Chief Executive Officer Ronojoy Dutta said, “The sudden onset of Covid-19 and the resulting lockdown, brought our operations to a complete halt by the end of March of this year. As our incoming cash flow dried up, we were unable to immediately process refunds for cancelled flights and had to create credit shells for the refunds that were due to our customers.”
