IndiGo announces special bonus for staff

In a sign of positive sentiment for the Indian aviation industry, India's largest airline IndiGo has announced a one-time special bonus for its employees. The company said that it will process a one-time special bonus amounting to around 1.5 months of basic salary, as per a communication sent to IndiGo staff. This amount will be disbursed to employees, along with the salary for May as an ex-gratia sum. One-time special bonus "Collectively, we have gone through a turbulent time, first there was covid19 and then the recovery thereafter. Both times has their own set of challenges for everyone. The losses incurred during covid had a very significant impact and washed away profits of the years before," the company said in its communication to its staff. Mint has reviewed a copy of the mail. As per the airline's latest annual report for 2022-2023, the total staff strength of IndiGo was 32,407 employees. "We started our path to recovery in the second half of the year 2022 and since t