NEW DELHI: Air India Express, AI’s budget arm, is looking at taking seven to eight Boeing 737s of Jet Airways. Meanwhile, AI is working on getting five Boeing 777s of Jet and SpiceJet has begun work on putting its stickers on Jet’s B737s to start flying them from this week.
“We have received some offers to take on lease B737 aircraft which were being operated by Jet. We are in the early stage of examining these offers. There are offers for 4-7 aircraft,” AI Express CEO K Shyam Sundar said. AI chairman Ashwani Lohani had asked Express, which has B737s in its fleet, to see it can utilise Jet’s B737s.
Some of Jet Airways’ grounded aircraft will start flying by mid next week, possibly as early as Tuesday.
