Boeing 737Max may take off by Oct-Nov: SpiceJet’s Ajay Singh

NEW DELHI : SpiceJet Ltd hopes to be able to fly its grounded Boeing 737Max aircraft fleet by October-November this year as regulators around the world are set to carry out test flights on the aircraft in the coming days.

“They (Boeing 737Max aircraft) are again occupying some space at our airports right now. We hope they can be back soon. But my expectation is it is still a few months away. They are saying August, but I would think it is more like October-November,” the airline’s chairman and managing director Ajay Singh said during a webinar that was attended by several big wigs of the aviation industry on Tuesday.

SpiceJet ordered as many as 205 of these planes in 2017, of which 13 have been delivered. The planes were, however, grounded around the world in March 2019 after two fatal crashes. Efforts to re-certify the planes have been marked by repeated delays.