Cargo business kept us afloat during COVID crisis- Ajay Singh, SpiceJet

Ajay Singh, CMD, SpiceJet, has said that they have been able to sail through the crisis owing to their cargo operations. “At SpiceJet, we tried to take a different path, wherein when there was no passenger traffic, we decided early on to use our aircraft for cargo business, which was our most significant reaction to this COVID crisis. In fact, in the last 2-3 months, we have emerged as India’s largest air cargo airline by a very long way. We carried close to 20,000 tonnes of cargo in the last 2 months and this includes flights we have done under Lifeline UDAN, all the medicines, medical equipment, and PPE kits that we got from different parts of the world into India. Also, outside, we sent medicines, fruits, vegetables and other things in support of our farming community and maritime community etc. Hence, we’ve tried to play a positive social role and we were trying to keep ourselves commercially afloat by expanding our cargo operations,” he said.