NEW DELHI: There is no respite in near sight for Jet Airways, which has already grounded two-thirds of its aircraft and has been cancelling several scheduled flights everyday, as the crisis is set to continue further. Separately, a trade union on Tuesday said that the carrier\u2019s pilots have threatened to stop flying from April 1 if Jet does not have a rescue plan in place by March 31.<\/p>\n
In a meeting held on Tuesday, Jet executives informed aviation watchdog Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) that the \u201ccurrent availability of aircraft in the fleet for operation is 41 and accordingly, a schedule for 603 domestic flights and 382 international flights has been drawn.\u201d<\/p>\n
Union Minister for Civil Aviation Suresh Prabhu had directed the secretary and DGCA officials to review the grounding of planes by Jet Airways, advance bookings, cancellations, refund and safety issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
NEW DELHI: There is no respite in near sight for Jet Airways, which has already grounded two-thirds of its aircraft and has been cancelling several scheduled flights everyday, as the crisis is set to continue further. Separately, a trade union on Tuesday said that the carrier\u2019s pilots have threatened to stop flying from April 1 if Jet does not have a rescue plan in place by March 31. In a meeting held on Tuesday, Jet executives informed aviation watchdog Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) that the \u201ccurrent availability of aircraft in the fleet for operation is 41 and accordingly, […]<\/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":[208,130,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-265383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265383","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=265383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}