NEW DELHI: Indian carriers — existing and upcoming — are gearing up to operate passenger flights on the Boeing 737 Max for the first time since they aircraft’s global grounding in March 2019.
SpiceJet currently has 13 leased Max in India and on Friday one of them are slated to have their “operational readiness” flight (without passengers) after the required hardware and software modifications were carried out on them.
Over the next few days some more SpiceJet Max will also have their readiness flight before being their return to service for commercial flights that is expected to happen very soon. Billionaire investor Rakesh Jhunjhunwala’s Akasa has ordered 72 B737 Max which it will start getting in time for the planned launch in the summer of 2022.
