Confident of solving Jet crisis: Aviation minister Hardeep Singh Puri

Civil aviation minister Hardeep Singh Puri said on Friday he is confident that problems at grounded Jet Airways Ltd will be solved, in the government’s first comments on the debt-laden carrier since it was re-elected last month.

“(We are) very confident we can solve the problems at the now defunct carrier,” Hardeep Singh Puri said on the sidelines of a conference in New Delhi, in comments widely interpreted as referring to Jet.

Massive debt and suffocating price competition forced what was once India’s biggest private-sector airline to halt operations in April at the cost of thousands of jobs, and resulting in higher airfares across the industry.