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Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
A drop in employee costs, despite the need to hire pilots under the new DGCA norms, raises fresh concerns about IndiGo’s staffing, and its vulnerability to a December 2025-scale disruption.
IndiGo’s analyst call at the end of May had a few curious moments. It followed the country’s largest airline announcing its fourth quarter and full-year financials. About 30 minutes in, an analyst raised a pointed question:
“On the cost, one part of it is about the salary cost, because we thought you're going to hire more pilots because of the new FDTL norms, and the salary cost could go up actually, and we can see the Q4 salary cost is actually lower than Q3. How it's happening, and any plans on the fuel hedging, please?”
This question went to the …
As the low-cost carrier pushes through a compensation overhaul, the absence of a CEO is complicating a delicate moment.
The two new chief executives at Air India and IndiGo come with contrasting reputations but face the same challenge—do their predecessors one better.
A regulatory easing could see the billionaire’s conglomerate move from running airports to owning an airline—an idea he is warming up to, with multiple options open.
