NEW DELHI: Even as hunt for a new investor for the bankrupt Jet Airways is underway, the government is learnt to have extended the validity of all Jet Airways slots allocated to other airlines by another three months.
Post the ‘temporary’ grounding of the airline in mid-April, the government, through a committee comprising of officials from Directorate General of Civil Aviation, Airports Authority of India and private airport operators, had methodically allocated a large number of Jet Airways slots to all domestic airlines for a period of three months till September to fill in the demand-supply gap. The committee had also allocated Jet’s international flying rights to other airlines till September.
