NEW DELHI: India will allow SpiceJet to reinstate flights in a “graded manner” once the airline shows it has sufficient engineering strength and the financial ability to stock up on spares, the country’s air safety watchdog told Reuters.
\nLast week, in an unprecedented move, the DGCA slashed SpiceJet’s approved departures by 50% for a period of 8 weeks after an audit revealed the airline’s inability to establish “a safe, efficient and reliable” service.
\nWhile placing SpiceJet under “enhanced surveillance”, the regulator stated in its notice there was “poor internal safety oversight” at the airline, and that financial issues at the carrier were leading to “frequent shortage of spares”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
NEW DELHI: India will allow SpiceJet to reinstate flights in a “graded manner” once the airline shows it has sufficient engineering strength and the financial ability to stock up on spares, the country’s air safety watchdog told Reuters. Last week, in an unprecedented move, the DGCA slashed SpiceJet’s approved departures by 50% for a period of 8 weeks after an audit revealed the airline’s inability to establish “a safe, efficient and reliable” service. While placing SpiceJet under “enhanced surveillance”, the regulator stated in its notice there was “poor internal safety oversight” at the airline, and that financial issues at the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,130,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-512190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512190","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=512190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}