One airline in India has hit upon a new way to make a bit of extra money while encouraging people back on planes sell them Covid-19 tests.
SpiceJet Ltd., India’s second-largest carrier, is offering coronavirus screening to passengers for as little as Rs 299 ($4). That’s about one-third the current market rate. SpiceHealth, the unit selling the tests, has also set up mobile-testing facilities for the general public in Mumbai and New Delhi, where starting from Rs 499, people can come in or have a sample collected from their home. Although aviation in India, with its big domestic market, is recovering faster than in places like Singapore and Hong Kong, which have no local business to speak of, the impact of the pandemic is still being felt. No-frills carrier SpiceJet posted a net loss of Rs 57 crore in the quarter ended Dec. 31 compared with a profit of Rs 73.2 crore a year earlier.
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One Airline Is Offering $4 Covid Tests to Get People Flying
Bloomberg 3/12/2021 Ragini Saxena © Bloomberg A healthcare worker uses a pipette to process Covid-19 test samples at the SpiceHealth Genome Sequencing Laboratory set up at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi, India, on Thursday, Jan. 14, 2021. SpiceHealth, founded by the promoters of low-cost carrier SpiceJet Ltd., have set up the lab to receive all positive Covid-19 samples from international travellers that arrive at the airport in order to identify and contain any new mutant variants of the virus.
(Bloomberg) One airline in India has hit upon a new way to make a bit of extra money while encouraging people back on planes sell them Covid-19 tests.
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