SpiceJet sends 80 pilots on leave without pay for 3 months
NEW DELHI: SpiceJet has sent 80 pilots — 40 of Boeing 737 and as many of turboprop Q400 — on leave without pay for three months as the airline has been running a truncated schedule of flights and has so far not seen any recapitalisation.
The aviation regulator had earlier this summer truncated the budget carrier’s flights to half of the approved schedule and had ordered any scaling up of operations will be allowed only when SpiceJet can show it has the recourses to safely do so.
The airline is currently operating about 300 daily flights with nearly 50 planes and has 800 pilots, with employees neither getting their PF for months now, nor the Form 16 of last fiscal so far.
