Moments after news came in of the aviation regulator the Directorate General of Civil Aviation granting conditional approval to Go First’s proposed resumption plan, the airline’s CEO asked staff at the company headquarters in Mumbai to share the good news widely.
“We are here to see that we are back into the skies not only to operate 116 flights, which we have planned, but we will also get more engines and we will fly more,” Khona said amid cheers from an apparently relieved staff Friday evening.
The LCC had sent the global aviation industry into a tizzy after it applied for a “voluntary bankruptcy resolution” with the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) on May 2, claiming that technical glitches with next-generation engines supplied by Pratt & Whitney (P&W) had hit normal operations leading to mounting losses. It also announced the suspension of all flight operations from the following day.
However, the carrier’s flight path to revival continues to be fraught with strong headwinds, a cross-section of industry experts told Business Today.
A leading aviation lawyer felt that the DGCA’s approval of the resumption plan had raised some serious questions.
“For instance, how can the airline resume operations when the leases have been terminated by the lessors? Also, since the leases are no longer valid, the certificates of registration of each of the leased aircraft have expired in accordance with the Aircraft Rules, 1937.”
The person, therefore, asked how could the regulator permit an aircraft, whose certificate of registration was no longer valid, to fly.
22/07/2023 Manish Pant/Business Today
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