{"id":532557,"date":"2022-10-28T12:56:16","date_gmt":"2022-10-28T07:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=532557"},"modified":"2022-10-28T12:56:16","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T07:26:16","slug":"indigo-and-spicejet-wet-lease-boeing-planes-for-six-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indigo-and-spicejet-wet-lease-boeing-planes-for-six-months\/","title":{"rendered":"IndiGo and SpiceJet wet lease Boeing planes for six months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aviation regulator DGCA has allowed IndiGo to take on wet lease \u2014 the aircraft and the operating crew \u2014 six wide body Boeing 777s from Turkish Airlines for six months \u2014 rejecting a request for a two-year lease of the aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>SpiceJet has also received the regulators approval to wet lease five Boeing 737 Max planes for up to six months. The airline has already deployed two of the aircraft on different routes, according to sources.<\/p>\n<p>The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) turned down the request of IndiGo \u2014the country\u2019s largest airline \u2014 to wet lease the aircraft for a longer period, citing that the move could become diversion of traffic rights in collusion with a strong foreign carrier that will mainly feed the latter\u2019s hub abroad with more passengers from India, the sources said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aviation regulator DGCA has allowed IndiGo to take on wet lease \u2014 the aircraft and the operating crew \u2014 six wide body Boeing 777s from Turkish Airlines for six months \u2014 rejecting a request for a two-year lease of the aircraft. SpiceJet has also received the regulators approval to wet lease five Boeing 737 Max planes for up to six months. The airline has already deployed two of the aircraft on different routes, according to sources. The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) turned down the request of IndiGo \u2014the country\u2019s largest airline \u2014 to wet lease the aircraft for [&hellip;]<\/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":[216,130,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-532557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532557","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=532557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}