After going through lean patches, SpiceJet, India's
second biggest budget carrier, has sought the government's help in running
flight operations.
The aviation ministry would forward the request to
the Prime Minister's Office and the Finance Ministry, sources said.
The airline has reportedly failed to satisfy the
DGCA with a fresh proposal on equity infusion in the company and has emailed
its pilots warning that its operations may be disrupted, sources said.
SpiceJet CEO Sanjeev Kapoor and others from the
company met Directorate General of Civil Aviation or DGCA officials today to
update it about its future plans. The aviation regulator had asked the budget
carrier last week to prepare a payment plan for vendors by today, December 15.
The regulator had also asked SpiceJet to clear salary dues of all its employees
by Tuesday.
The carrier cut its fleet by about a third - from 35
Boeing planes to 22 in September.
Worried over large-scale cancellations, DGCA withdrew 186 of its slots on December 5. SpiceJet had said the withdrawal of slots was a "natural outcome of a revised fleet plan".
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