In a bid to choose between Boeing Co and Airbus Group, Indian budget carrier SpiceJet has laid the time-line of deliveries as the condition for buying airplanes in a deal worth Rs 75,000 crore.
SpiceJet and Air India Express are the only budget carriers that fly Boeings in India. Other airlines such as IndiGo and Jet Airways fly Airbus jets. On Jan. 22, shares of InterGlobe Aviation, which owns IndiGo, fell 19% after it said Airbus was unable stick to the schedule of delivering A320neo aircraft.
On the other hand, Gulf airliner Qatar Airways refused to take deliveries of Airbus A320neo planes because its engine needed special measures to start, Bloomberg reported.
"One of the selling points for anybody to make the offer more attractive to SpiceJet would be early deliveries. When Airbus and Boeing are talking to us, they are mindful of the fact that we need early deliveries," Ajay Singh, Chairman of SpiceJet, was quoted as saying by the news agency.
09/02/16 Kalyani Pandey/International Business Times
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SpiceJet and Air India Express are the only budget carriers that fly Boeings in India. Other airlines such as IndiGo and Jet Airways fly Airbus jets. On Jan. 22, shares of InterGlobe Aviation, which owns IndiGo, fell 19% after it said Airbus was unable stick to the schedule of delivering A320neo aircraft.
On the other hand, Gulf airliner Qatar Airways refused to take deliveries of Airbus A320neo planes because its engine needed special measures to start, Bloomberg reported.
"One of the selling points for anybody to make the offer more attractive to SpiceJet would be early deliveries. When Airbus and Boeing are talking to us, they are mindful of the fact that we need early deliveries," Ajay Singh, Chairman of SpiceJet, was quoted as saying by the news agency.
09/02/16 Kalyani Pandey/International Business Times
