Pay & conditions · Asia-Pacific
IndiGo: pilot jobs, pay and conditions
India · Low-cost · 6E / IGO
Hiring now
Expanding rapidly; FO and captain hiring ongoing; pay revision from early 2026.
Pay
Unofficial figures. Not from an agreement or the airline: collected from pilot forums, salary sites and other public sources. Treat them as indicative.
First officer
INR 3,200,000–6,500,000 a year
about $34–68k a year
Captain
INR 9,000,000–20,000,000 a year
about $95–211k a year
Aggregator ranges (Aug 2026), unverified.
Open vacancies (0)
No open pilot vacancies listed right now.
Conditions
- Allowances
- Flying allowance, international allowances, performance bonus.
- Roster
- India domestic/intl.
- Bases
- DEL, BOM, BLR, HYD, MAA, CCU
- Fleet
- A320neo, A321neo, ATR72, A350
- Benefits
- Staff travel for family, insurance.
- Careers site
- goindigo.in ↗
Requirements
- Captain
- 3,000 hours minimum
- Type rating
- varies
- Licence
- DGCA CPL (FO) / ATPL (CPT)
- Other
- FO max age 45; CPT max age 62, 100h PIC post line release
Sources
Not from an official source: figures collected from pilot forums, salary sites and other public sources. Indicative only · figures from 2026 · checked 27 Oct 2026
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