Indian low-cost carrier SpiceJet Ltd may consider taking some of the Boeing 737 MAX planes that were due to be delivered to now bankrupt Jet Airways but are still sitting in Seattle, its chairman said on Friday.
“Lessors are in touch with us for MAX aircraft including those. There is an opportunity to backfill, to make up for some of the lost time,” SpiceJet Chairman Ajay Singh told Reuters in an interview in New Delhi on Friday.
SpiceJet has already agreed to take four Jet 737 MAX planes on the ground in India, he said. More remain on the ground in Seattle, having not been delivered due to payment issues or because they were produced after a global grounding of the 737 MAX fleet in March after two fatal crashes.
