IndiGo to stop serving in-flight meals for a long period after lockdown

NEW DELHI: Once the coronavirus lockdown is over in India and commercial passenger flights are permitted again, IndiGo will deep clean its aircraft more frequently, stop in-flight meal service for a brief period and will fill the maximum 50 per cent seats in airport buses, airline's CEO Ronojoy Dutta said on Friday.

"In situations like these, companies do not manage to growth or profitability but to liquidity. That means our singular focus is on cash flow. We are examining all our fixed costs and looking for ways to minimize them," he said.

Dutta said IndiGo's plan post lockdown will be going forward to first start the services and gradually ramp up the capacity.

"We have consistently been very wellbeing cognizant and now we should be wellbeing cognizant also. In light of this, we are taking a gander at changing a large number of our



working systems. The new arrangement of techniques have not been finished at this point. 

"Be that as it may, we will profound clean our airplane all the more regularly, we will be stop feast administration for a concise period and we will run our mentors at a most extreme heap of half limit. We will be coming out with the new arrangement of working systems very soon," Dutta said in an email to representatives on Friday, which has been gotten to by PTI.

India has imposed a 21-day lockdown till April 14 to curb the coronavirus pandemic. Consequently, all domestic and international commercial passenger flights have been suspended for this time period.

However, cargo flights, offshore helicopter operations, medical evacuation flights and special flights permitted by Indian aviation regulator DGCA are permitted to operate during the lockdown.