Three of these planes will join the fleet in the next 10 days while the remaining two will be inducted by June, SpiceJet said in a statement
The carrier said it would be the first Indian budget carrier to launch daily direct flights on the Mumbai-Colombo, Mumbai-Dhaka, Mumbai-Riyadh, Mumbai-Hong Kong and Mumbai-Kathmandu sectors
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Under dry lease, the lessor provides the airline with the aircraft but without any crew member, while under wet lease, the lessor provides the aircraft along with complete crew.
The company said it will induct 16 Boeing 737-800 NG aircraft on dry lease and has applied to the DGCA for a no objection certificate to import the aircraft.
The International Air Transport Association represents more than 290 airlines, including Air India, Jet Airways and Vistara
Around 50 planes of Jet are grounded due to non-payment to lessors
SpiceJet and Jet Airways are the only two domestic airlines which operate Boeing 737 Max 8 planes
With this, global travel agents will gain access to its ticket inventory, but passengers will have to pay a surcharge for tickets issued through Amadeus
The scheduled time of the aircraft's departure was 9.10 pm on February 19, but it was rescheduled to 12.40 am of February 20, SpiceJet said
There is a shortage of trained commanders with domestic air traffic growing at 20 per cent, said Chairman Ajay Singh
The airline's standalone net profit was 550.7 million rupees ($7.74 million) for the quarter ended December, compared with 2.40 billion rupees a year earlier
A Spicejet spokesperson, however, denied the allegations as 'false, fraudulent, baseless and concocted'
Singh had helped start SpiceJet in 2005 with the objective of making flying affordable for all
The first flight is scheduled to take off on January 19 from Guwahati's Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi international airport carrying a consignment of fresh fruits and vegetables, Spicejet said
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The flight, carrying 83 persons including four crew members, departed from Ahmedabad at 3.09 pm for Jodhpur
Shares of low-cost carrier SpiceJet were up 4% at Rs 86.95 apiece on BSE in the intra-day trade in an otherwise weak market owing to fall in crude oil prices.
a SpiceJet spokesperson said that payments to AAI and other vendors are being made by the airline
However, our check-in systems and regular flight operations at all airports will be functional, said SpiceJet