Aviation regulator DGCA has allowed IndiGo to take on wet lease — the aircraft and the operating crew — six wide body Boeing 777s from Turkish Airlines for six months — rejecting a request for a two-year lease of the aircraft.
SpiceJet has also received the regulators approval to wet lease five Boeing 737 Max planes for up to six months. The airline has already deployed two of the aircraft on different routes, according to sources.
The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) turned down the request of IndiGo —the country’s largest airline — to wet lease the aircraft for a longer period, citing that the move could become diversion of traffic rights in collusion with a strong foreign carrier that will mainly feed the latter’s hub abroad with more passengers from India, the sources said.
