{"id":263061,"date":"2019-03-08T05:50:18","date_gmt":"2019-03-08T05:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=263061"},"modified":"2019-03-08T05:50:18","modified_gmt":"2019-03-08T05:50:18","slug":"jet-airways-crisis-only-70-out-of-123-aircrafts-operational-airline-asked-to-minimise-inconvenience-to-passengers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/jet-airways-crisis-only-70-out-of-123-aircrafts-operational-airline-asked-to-minimise-inconvenience-to-passengers\/","title":{"rendered":"Jet airways crisis: Only 70 out of 123 aircrafts operational, airline asked to minimise inconvenience to passengers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over 40% of Jet Airways\u2019 total fleet of 123 aircraft is grounded due to non-payment of lease rentals and lack of spares, a senior official at the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) said on Thursday. DGCA director general BS Bhullar said Jet\u2019s flight schedule is being monitored on a monthly basis as its fleet count has been reduced to 70. \u201cJet\u2019s financial situation is well known. We are in constant touch with the airlines. We have told them to inform passengers about cancellations well in advance so that inconvenience is minimised,\u201d Bhullar told reporters. He added that forward sales would not be banned as it can create a panic in the industry.<\/p>\n<p>Cash-strapped Jet Airways had a fleet of 123 aircraft, including Airbus A330s and Boeing 737-800s, at the end of December 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 40% of Jet Airways\u2019 total fleet of 123 aircraft is grounded due to non-payment of lease rentals and lack of spares, a senior official at the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) said on Thursday. DGCA director general BS Bhullar said Jet\u2019s flight schedule is being monitored on a monthly basis as its fleet count has been reduced to 70. \u201cJet\u2019s financial situation is well known. We are in constant touch with the airlines. We have told them to inform passengers about cancellations well in advance so that inconvenience is minimised,\u201d Bhullar told reporters. He added that forward sales [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[196,130,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-263061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}