{"id":2630,"date":"2020-12-23T13:48:34","date_gmt":"2020-12-23T13:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/?p=2630"},"modified":"2021-01-01T13:51:41","modified_gmt":"2021-01-01T13:51:41","slug":"indigo-recovering-from-aviation-carnage-and-may-rehire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/2020\/12\/indigo-recovering-from-aviation-carnage-and-may-rehire.html","title":{"rendered":"IndiGo recovering from aviation &#8216;carnage&#8217; and may rehire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: IndiGo, India\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s biggest airline, could start slowly rehiring staff in three months as capacity rebuilds from \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the background of carnage\u00e2\u20ac\u009d caused by Covid-19, with domestic services likely to return to pre-pandemic levels by January or February, chief executive officer Ronojoy Dutta said.<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Doom and gloom is off the table and we are recovering pretty nicely, especially domestically,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Dutta said in an interview with Bloomberg Television on Wednesday. The recovery in international capacity will take longer due to quarantines and virus flareups in places such as the UK, but the airline is hoping it will be back to normal levels by the end of 2021, according to Dutta.<br \/>\nIndiGo, which has some 730 Airbus SE A320neo planes on order, laid off about 10% of its workforce due to the pandemic-driven slowdown. The carrier, operated by InterGlobe Aviation Ltd., still sees \u00e2\u20ac\u0153a lot of room\u00e2\u20ac\u009d for growth in international routes, particularly those of about six hours duration that can be served by single-aisle narrowbody aircraft, Dutta said. India\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s hubs are well positioned, he said.<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We are anxious to get back into the international game in a big way and we have lots of plans for rapid growth,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said.<br \/>\nInterGlobe\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s shares rose 2.2% Wednesday morning. They have climbed 20% this year, while a Bloomberg gauge of Asia Pacific airlines has dropped 21% and an index of global carriers is down 29%.<br \/>\n23\/12\/20 Bloomberg\/<a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/business\/india-business\/indigo-recovering-from-aviation-carnage-and-may-rehire\/articleshow\/79913646.cms\">Times of India<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: IndiGo, India\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s biggest airline, could start slowly rehiring staff in three months as capacity rebuilds from \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the background<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2631,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,43,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-flight-attendant-job","category-indigo-airlines","category-pilots"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/1546711815-5638.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}