The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on Wednesday curtailed SpiceJet’s summer schedule flights by half for eight weeks from March 27 to October 29 after several of its planes reported technical malfunction recently. DGCA in its order to SpiceJet also said that the airline will be subjected to “enhanced surveillance” by the aviation regulator during these eight weeks.
The order of grounding the aircraft came after DGCA sent a show cause notice to SpiceJet over a series of technical malfunction incidents. SpiceJet submitted their reply to the show cause notice on July 25, DGCA said.
“In view of findings of various spot checks, inspections and the reply to the show cause notice submitted by M/s SpiceJet, for continued sustenance of safe and reliable air transport service, the number of departures of M/s SpiceJet are hereby restricted to 50% of the number of departures approved under Summer Schedule 2022 for a period of 8 weeks from the date of issue of this order..’ the order said.
