India: Indigo, first airline, cuts 10% organic

(ANSA) - NEW DELHI, JULY 20 - Indigo, the largest Indian airline, will cut 10 percent of its workforce: executive CEO Ronojoy Dutta announced it in a letter to employees today. Dutta, according to online news site Scroll.in, said that "for the first time in its history, Indigo is forced to make such a painful decision."
    The company, which holds 50 percent of the sub-continent market, had 23,531 employees in May 2019. Neimesi Dutta had already announced that it had to put in place "a gradual program of reduction of collaborators and cut their wages for all in the months of May, June and July".
    Many other Indian airlines, including SpiceJet, GoAire, the state Air India, have already drastically reduced rewards or left part of the staff, without wages, due to the serious crisis in the sector caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and the lockdown that has kept the skies are closed, including national airplanes, from 25 March to late May; still less than 25 per cent of the flights normally scheduled are operated.
   (HANDLE).