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2.1
Captain - Former employee
Recommended to other Pilots 
Positive business outlookApproval of management
Pros
Upgrade opportunity
Cons
To maintain the upgrade
Advice to management
Focus on retention and work life balance
Advice to future employees
Necessary evil, Get out first opportunity
Worklife
2.8
Captain - Current employee
Recommended to other Pilots Positive business outlookApproval of management
Pros
Organised airline with good leave policies
Cons
Horrible flying, no life
Advice to management
Improve pay and rosters
Advice to future employees
Be careful you’ll get burnt out
Don’t join this airline
1.7
First Officer - Current employee
Recommended to other Pilots Positive business outlookApproval of management
Pros
Fast transition from first officer to Captain
Cons
Company really don’t care about you. Minimum rest is the norm. No respect for pilots. Treated as 3rd class citizens. None of the suggestions or complaints from the crew are really looked into. Cost cutting at its peak. Safety can go for a toss is OTP needs to be maintained.
Advice to management
Really start caring about your pilots, there will come a day when you will realise the importance of pilots. Management pilots need to grow a spine and stand for the pilots as a community rather than trying to suck up to their bosses.
Advice to future employees
Please don’t look to join this airline. If health and mental well being is your last priority then Indigo is the airline for you
Great place to start career, Hazardous to stay longer
3.1
Captain - Former employee
Recommended to other Pilots Positive business outlookApproval of management
Pros
Highly professional compared to other Indian carriers. Plenty of growth opportunities. Innovation approach to problem solving. Accepting of feedback.
Cons
Very hectic schedules. Inhumane work timings and durations. Extreme penny pinching visible at every level.
Advice to management
Offer better contracts. Reduce fatigue across the workforce.
Advice to future employees
Great place to start your career with but don’t stay too long as it might affect your health in the long run.
If you hate sleep and love to be out of the house the entire month, this is the airline for you.
2.1
Captain - Former employee
Recommended to other Pilots Positive business outlookApproval of management
Pros
Quick upgrades from First Officer to Captain and from Captain to trainer. Flies to almost every destination in India and easy staff travel. Most of the things are given in black and white. Spoon feeds to a great extent. You'll fly a very young fleet of aircraft.
Cons
1. Your existence in this company will be on minimum rest. 2. Your offs are considered your rest days. 3. They will bring you back home at 11 pm before your offs and put you for a 3 am reporting the day after your off. 4. Bad food, bad layover hotels and a general trend of cost-cutting at every corner. 5. There is an absolute divide between all departments with no respect for pilots. 6. I'd probably be medically unfit or dead in 10 years if I kept working with them without rest and sleep
Advice to management
Stop exploiting people. Day in and day out you bombard us with emails on safety, while no one seems to actually care about it. Don't treat employees as use and throw material.
Advice to future employees
Join if you are a First Officer and want to be a Captain. This is what this airline does best, cause everyone keeps quitting on them.
