With the Income Tax Department imposing a penalty of Rs 944.20 crore on IndiGo, India's largest airline has termed the order "erroneous" and vowed to challenge it legally.
IndiGo, which is India's largest airline by market share, has reported an 18% year-on-year fall in its December quarter consolidated net profit at Rs 2,449 crore as against Rs 2,998 crore, a year ago, according to a company release issued on Friday.
Travellers can now rejoice as IndiGo has launched a daily direct flight from Kolkata’s Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport to the popular tourist destination of Phuket, Thailand.
Top investor Vijay Kedia on Sunday slammed IndiGo for frequent delays, poor customer service and rude ground staff, as the low-cost carrier suffered a massive outage leading to flight disruptions and ground services being halted across the nation on Saturday.
An IndiGo flight from Jabalpur in Madhya Pradesh to Hyderabad in Telangana was diverted to Nagpur in Maharashtra on Sunday morning following a ‘bomb threat’ on board.
Pieter Elbers, Chief Executive Officer, IndiGo said, "We are pleased to induct our second Boeing 777 aircraft on damp lease, which will operate on the Mumbai-Istanbul route.
In order to support the repatriation efforts under Operation Kaveri of the Indian government, IndiGo will operate chartered evacuation flights on April 28 and 30 from Jeddah to Delhi and Bengaluru respectively.
The airline stated, "IndiGo flight 6E897 from Bengaluru to Varanasi was diverted to Hyderabad as a precaution."
A statement issued by the Airways said, "As per protocol, they were handed over to the CISF security staff for unruly behaviour."
The airline will commence flights between Mumbai-Kolkata-Itanagar from November 28 from Itanagar's newly-opened Donyi Polo Airport.
