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IndiGo's 75 new Airbus aircraft to be outfitted with Recaro's seats

IndiGo's 75 new Airbus aircraft will be outfitted with "comfortable" seats of German company Recaro from January 2023 onwards to upgrade passenger experience, a statement said on Monday. IndiGo's current fleet of over 280 Airbus aircraft are equipped with 'Dragonfly' seats of French company Safran. Recaro's 'BL3710' economy class seat will be installed on 75 Airbus aircraft -- A320neo and A321neo aircraft -- starting from January 2023, stated the joint statement of IndiGo and Recaro on Monday. India's largest carrier IndiGo will be the first airline in the Indian sub-continent to feature the BL3710 seat of Recaro, it mentioned. "The combination of the ergonomic design and weight of less than 10 kg per passenger has made the BL3710 economy class seat a bestseller since it first entered the market in 2019," it noted. Sanjay Kumar, Chief Strategy and Revenue Officer, IndiGo, said, As we expand our network, domestically and internationally to cater to the travel demand, the comfortabl

IndiGo's technicians go on sick leave in Hyderabad, Delhi over low wages

IndiGo had cut salaries of a large section of its employees when the COVID-19 pandemic was at its peak

IndiGo to start flights between Kolkata and Deoghar airport from July 12

Aviation regulator DGCA had on June 29 granted aerodrome licence to the newly-built airport in Jharkhand, allowing it to handle narrow-body aircraft such as A321 and B737

IndiGo hikes pilot salaries by a further 8%, restores overtime allowance

The airline has made changes to its HR policies to reinstate the work pattern of crew under which they will earn more, but there will be fewer leaves

Mass leave by the cabin crew an aberration, ready for growth: IndiGo

IndiGo is hiring for replacement and expansion. Around 1,500 in the cabin crew are under training and will join operations over the next few weeks

Fight for cabin crew, firm ATF prices to aggravate airlines' pain: Analysts

The Indian aviation sector is seeing headwinds like the Information Technology (IT) sector, where higher attrition rates have forced the management to dole out benefits like double-digit pay hikes

Indigo flies ahead of rivals in May, has almost 58% of domestic market

Tata-led Air India has seen its market share continuously decline since March as around 30 of its 113 aircraft have been grounded for varying periods

IndiGo, SpiceJet face turbulence amid rising crude, competition: Analysts

Analysts expect some consolidation in the industry going forward, with the impact of increased competition playing out over two-three years

Specially-abled child incident a lesson for us, won't appeal order: IndiGo

IndiGo CEO Ronojoy Dutta said IndiGo needs to be sensitive in their training and take the specially-abled child incident as a case study

IndiGo Q4 numbers modest, but stock rises on hope of profit, traffic

Sustained growth in air travel and pricing discipline are key parameters for India's largest airline.

IndiGo slips into losses due to exchange rate and higher fuel price

The airline will deploy 60% more capacity in FY23 than in FY22 when it had to curtail operations in April due to surge of Delta variant and in Dec-Jan due to Omicron

Talent within? CEO choice puts spotlight on Indian airlines' HR policies

Foreigners being selected to lead Indian carriers speaks about the companies' succession planning, say experts.

Scindia to investigate IndiGo barring specially-abled child on board

IndiGo barred a specially-abled child from boarding a flight at the Ranchi airport as he was in a state of panic

IndiGo to make behavioural test must for upgrade and promotion of pilots

Inclusion of BEI as part of upgrade and promotion comes in the backdrop of pilot unrest due to delay in restoration of pay cuts which were induced in phases during two years of the pandemic

IndiGo runs first trial flight using GAGAN satellite technology

The trials were carried out in the presence of the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) officials at Kishangarh Airport near Ajmer with an ATR72 aircraft

IndiGo pilots under scanner for using expletives on radio during flight

The Indigo pilots were expressing unhappiness over the airline's delay in restoring the pre-Covid salaries and vented ire on 121.5 MHz frequency.

7 IndiGo pilots under DGCA scanner for 'abusing' on emergency frequency

Frequency 121.5 MHz, used for emergency communications, has to be compulsorily monitored by the air traffic controllers who are in the vicinity of the aircraft

IndiGo appoints Vikram Mehta, ex-IAF Chief Dhanoa as independent directors

Mehta will replace Anupam Khanna, whose second term came to an end on March 26, and Dhanoa will replace former Sebi chief M Damodaran, who is stepping down on May 3, IndiGo said in a statement

Passenger's phone catches fire mid-air on IndiGo's Dibrugarh-Delhi flight

The flight 6E 2037 was heading to Delhi from Dibrugarh when a cabin crew member saw sparks and smoke emitting from a passenger's phone, officials noted

IndiGo flight makes emergency landing at Nagpur due to 'technical snag'

An IndiGo Nagpur-Lucknow flight returned to the origin after take-off following a suspected momentary technical snag, said the airline on Monday.