NEW DELHI: Describing Jet Airways’ 26th anniversary on this May 5 as “saddest of all days with no flights”, founder Naresh Goyal says he made Rs 250 crore available to banks from a group company.
Goyal wrote a mail to employees on Monday — which was not sent to all on their official mail ids — says he now hopes “there will be a positive outcome on May 10 as per the BLRP (bank-led provisional resolution plan) deadline…. wish to witness the blazing sun reappear from behind the dark clouds of the past weeks, on a canvas of never ending blue.”
Jet suspended operations on the midnight of April 17-18. The airline’s taking to the skies again is now considered very difficult given its huge debt-cum-liabilities – payables to the tune of over Rs 25,000 crore. A significant number of Jet’s trained crew members, including pilots, have joined other airlines; its planes have been repossessed by lessors and many of them are now flying for other airlines like SpiceJet and Jet’s domestic slots have already been given to others and international will also go the same way by this weekend.
