New Delhi: Troubled airline SpiceJet today resumed operations after being forced to cancel over 150 flights with oil marketing companies refusing to refuel its planes forcing the budget carrier to pay Rs three crore last evening to buy jet fuel.
"So far, the operations are going as scheduled," airport sources said, as the airline flew at least five flights out of Delhi till 1000 hours to Mumbai, Jaipur, Port Blair, Kochi and Varanasi.
The airline came out of the brink today after all its flights were grounded for about ten hours yesterday before it made part payment of Rs three crore to oil companies enabling it to partly resume operations. Of the 243 listed flights, it claimed to have operated 75 across the country after 1600 hours yesterday.
Ajay Singh, one of the original promoters of SpiceJet, met with Civil Aviation Secretary V Somasundaran fuelling speculation about the former planning to invest in the carrier once again.
18/12/14 PTI/Economic Times
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"So far, the operations are going as scheduled," airport sources said, as the airline flew at least five flights out of Delhi till 1000 hours to Mumbai, Jaipur, Port Blair, Kochi and Varanasi.
The airline came out of the brink today after all its flights were grounded for about ten hours yesterday before it made part payment of Rs three crore to oil companies enabling it to partly resume operations. Of the 243 listed flights, it claimed to have operated 75 across the country after 1600 hours yesterday.
Ajay Singh, one of the original promoters of SpiceJet, met with Civil Aviation Secretary V Somasundaran fuelling speculation about the former planning to invest in the carrier once again.
18/12/14 PTI/Economic Times
