Jet Airways reports record $366.5 million quarterly loss

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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Jet Airways, India's No.2 carrier by domestic market share, reported its biggest-ever quarterly loss as higher fuel costs and taxes weigh on Indian airlines and high competition limits fare increases.
Jet, which last year sold a 24 percent stake to Abu Dhabi's Etihad in the first deal in the sector after the government eased restrictions, reported on Tuesday a standalone net loss of 21.54 billion rupees ($366.5 million) for its fiscal fourth quarter to end-March.
It had reported a loss of 4.96 billion rupees in the year-ago quarter.
(Reporting by Devidutta Tripathy; Editing by Subhranshu Sahu)
First Published: May 27 2014 | 6:00 PM IST