IndiGo announces 3% bonus for crew members

19 May 2023 , 03:27 AM

India’s largest airline company, IndiGo has announced on Friday that the company will pay bonus of 3% of salary to its crew after the airline recorded a profit in the January-March quarter. As per the reports of the Economics Times, bonus is the tradition of IndiGo but was stopped since FY20 due to pandemic impact.

Chief Human Resources Officer of IndiGo Sukhjit Pasricha said in a note, “During the pandemic, we were incurring losses for 3 years. Hence crew bonus couldn’t be disbursed. Considering that last 2 quarters out of 4 in FY23 were positive for us – both operationally and financially, we are reinstating more than half of maximum 5% Crew Bonus which was being disbursed in pre-Covid years. As an appreciation for all your efforts, the Crew Bonus for FY23 will be 3% of your Salary for FY23.”

Restarting bonus by the company will help in retaining crew and attracting new ones as the airline steps up expansion. The airline is planning to hire 5,000-6,000 employees in FY24 as it continues its expansion plan within India and overseas.