Designed for the police personnel, FitToFly is an ongoing flagship initiative under IndiGoReach – a CSR programme
India CSR News Network
MUMBAI: IndiGo, India’s largest and fastest growing carrier, today opened a fully equipped gym for the Police officials in polices lines at Siliguri Metropolitan Police. With an endeavour to infuse IndiGo fitness belief and inspire the Police personnel to adopt a more physically active lifestyle, this gym has been set up within the office premise of the police lines at Siliguri Metropolitan Police.
Appreciating the efforts of IndiGo, Smt. C S Lepcha (IPS) Siliguri Metropolitan Police said, “Fitness is essential for everybody even more so for the police force. We would like to thank the IndiGo team for this initiative that renders special attention to the fitness of the police personnel. Having a gym in the premise will help workforce to follow a regime and make more positive strides towards fitness.”
Commenting on this initiative, Aditya Ghosh, President and Whole-Time Director, IndiGo said, “We are absolutely delighted to see our FitToFly programme being extended to different parts of the country. After a successful launch of FitToFly gyms in thirteen cities, we are happy to collaborate with the Siliguri Metropolitan police force. At IndiGo, we feel for our police force who work day and night to provide us the security we need. Setting up gyms for them is an important move to encourage them to start making choices to live a healthier life by choosing to be holistically fit.”
Ghosh further added, “For us at IndiGo, being healthy is not just about physical fitness, but it’s also about creating fitness into everything we do – be it our operations, customer relations or financial stability of the firm. We believe it starts with being fit as individuals. With the launch of this gym in Siliguri, we hope to stimulate a healthy lifestyle amongst our police personnel and take this FitToFly initiative to a newer level.”
The FitToFly gyms will be fully equipped with multi-purpose machines, cross trainer, bench press and other facilities. As part of this multi-city campaign to promote fitness and healthy lifestyle – IndiGo launched its first gym at Jaipur international airport, in February this yearfollowed by Gurugram, Dimapur, Chennai, Dehradun, Patna, Bhubaneswar, Raipur, Goa, Udaipur, Guwahati, Indore, Varanasi and Jammu.
IndiGo is India’s largest airline with a market share of 41.2% as of May 2017. IndiGo is one of the fastest growing low cost carrier in the world (source: CAPA). IndiGo has a simple philosophy: offer fares that are always low, flights that are on time, and a travel experience that is courteous and hassle-free. IndiGo, with a Technical Dispatch Reliability of 99.86%, has one of the best On Time Performances in India. With its fleet of 135 Airbus A320 family aircraft, the airline operates 934 daily flights connecting 46 destinations.
IndiGo is led by its President and Whole-time Director, Aditya Ghosh and is promoted by InterGlobe Enterprises and Rakesh Gangwal, an aviation industry veteran and entrepreneur. InterGlobe Enterprises is a leader in aviation, hospitality and travel related services‚ growing the market through innovation and service leadership. We build businesses and represent global brands that deliver quality and value. Established in 1989‚ with headquarters in Gurgaon‚ today InterGlobe has a network of 126 offices across 59 cities globally. InterGlobe employs more than 20,000 professionals across its businesses which include IndiGo (InterGlobe Aviation), InterGlobe Technologies‚ InterGlobe Air Transport‚ InterGlobe Technology Quotient‚ InterGlobe Hotels and InterGlobe Education.
