New Delhi: No-frills carrier SpiceJet Limited will be the only private airline to fly to the US after an air service agreement between India and US designated the Indian carrier to operate scheduled services between the two countries.
“This is to inform you that in terms of the Air Services Agreement (ASA) between the Government of India and the Government of the United States of America, SpiceJet has been designated as Indian scheduled carrier to operate on agreed services between India and the USA,” SpiceJet said in a stock exchange notification on Thursday.
SpiceJet has never flown on a long-haul route before, and operated to Middle East and South East Asian countries on its narrow-body fleet before a curb on international flights were placed in March. The airline will now need to lease wide-body planes to fly to such long-haul destinations as narrow-body planes like Boeing 737 and Airbus A320 in its fleet are incapable of undertaking such flights.
