INTERVIEW | We offered to fly migrants and the offer still stands, says SpiceJet CMD Ajay Singh

Though hit badly by the two-month-long grounding of passenger aircrafts, Ajay Singh, Chairman and Managing Director, SpiceJet talks about their proposal to fly migrant labourers and why they are a resilient industry during TNIE’s webinar.

As soon as the problem of migrant labourers walking back home arose, SpiceJet had offered to the government to fly them instead – but received no response – revealed Ajay Singh, Chairman and Managing Director of SpiceJet. “We had offered (airlifts) from our side very early on. We said to them, sending people on 5-6 days of bus ride where they are susceptible to infection, could have been substituted with a two and a half hour journey.”