NEW DELHI: Air India and IndiGo are eying Go First’s fleet of 55 aircraft and are learnt to have initiated dialogue with the lessors. Go First has only Airbus A320s, which the other two airlines also use. In the last one week, a significant percentage of the Wadia Group airline’s 740 odd pilots have gone mainly to IndiGo and AI, apart from foreign airlines and Akasa. While many of them have been issued offer letters, Go First is insisting they serve the DGCAmandated notice period and making it tough for them to leave.
So far, lessors of 45 Go First planes have approached the regulator for deregistering the same under Irrevocable Deregistration and Export Request Authorisation (IDERA).