IndiGo hikes pilots, crew salary by 8% days after mass sick leave delayed 900 flights

IndiGo has hiked the salaries of pilots and crew by eight per cent. The new salary will be effective from August 1. This comes after more than 900 IndiGo flights were delayed on Saturday as a significant number of cabin crew members took sick leave. The delays happened on the same day when Air India conducted a recruitment drive.

Earlier in April this year, IndiGo had given an eight per cent hike. Overall, the airline’s pilots and crew members’ salaries will go up by 16 per cent in just four months.

However, there has been a disappointment among pilots and crew that Indigo had cut salaries during covid pandemic and had not reinstated them even as travel norms were relaxed.

Last week’s mass sick leave of pilots and crew was likely the reason for disruption of flight schedule. “More than half of IndiGo flights were delayed on Saturday after a large number of inflight crew were reported sick. As a result, around 55 per cent of the total flights operated by the country’s largest airline were impacted on July 2,” data from the Ministry of Civil Aviation revealed.

The delays happened after a large number of IndiGo crew members played truant to appear for job interviews being conducted by Air India for similar roles across different centres, sources claimed to Business Today.

More than 900 IndiGo flights were delayed as the day ended. The low-cost carrier (LCC) operates 1600 flights daily. Flight operations at the airline returned to normal on Sunday.

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