DGCA lifts 50% cap restrictions on SpiceJet, to operate with full capacity

The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on Friday lifted the 50 per cent cap restrictions on SpiceJet.

From the winter schedule, October 30- March 25, the airline can operate with full capacity, the regulator said.

The DGCA had on July 27 ordered SpiceJet to operate a maximum of 50 per cent of its flights, which were approved in the summer schedule for a period of eight weeks owing to a series of incidents involving its flights.

Scheduled airlines will operate 21,941 flights on domestic routes every week in the winter schedule starting from October 30. The number of weekly