New Delhi: SpiceJet flew into more turbulence today after all its flights were grounded for about 10 hours before it made cash payments to oil companies to partly resume operations in the evening.
Over 150 flights of the airline, which has 243 scheduled services a day, were cancelled.
Hundreds of harried passengers across the country got into heated exchanges with the SpiceJet staff at airports.
Airline officials did not provide any information on the number of flights cancelled, merely saying 75 services were operated after the oil companies, which had stopped fuel supplies to its aircraft, eased the restriction as the carrier made payments for the day's fuel offtake.
"We have started refuelling SpiceJet. The airline has paid money too," a senior official of a state-owned oil firm said.
When asked whether the airline would operate all flights tomorrow, a spokesperson for the airline said "yes".
17/12/14 Telegraph
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Over 150 flights of the airline, which has 243 scheduled services a day, were cancelled.
Hundreds of harried passengers across the country got into heated exchanges with the SpiceJet staff at airports.
Airline officials did not provide any information on the number of flights cancelled, merely saying 75 services were operated after the oil companies, which had stopped fuel supplies to its aircraft, eased the restriction as the carrier made payments for the day's fuel offtake.
"We have started refuelling SpiceJet. The airline has paid money too," a senior official of a state-owned oil firm said.
When asked whether the airline would operate all flights tomorrow, a spokesperson for the airline said "yes".
17/12/14 Telegraph
