In a setback to Go First, the Delhi High Court has ordered the airline not to fly lessors’ aircraft as part of scheduled maintenance. Ever since the airline’s grounding in May, there have been questions regarding Go First’s leased aircraft. The airline is yet to win back the confidence of its lessors, who are quite skeptical about the future of their planes with Go First.
The Delhi High Court has ruled that Go First cannot consider scheduled maintenance as the reason to fly its lessors’ aircraft. The court said that the resolution professional (RP) who is managing the airline’s insolvency proceedings has been unable to give compelling reasons to carry out these maintenance flights.
Go First will have to abide by these orders about such non-revenue flights until further decisions can be taken on this. Justice Ganju was quoted by the Press Trust of India as saying, “The respondent no.9/ RP of Go Airlines has also not been able to show any urgency or any grave imminent threat to these aircraft to suddenly and without any prior notice, compel the respondent no.9 RP to fly these aircraft.
“Prima facie, the term - scheduled maintenance cannot be understood to include flying the aircraft even if it is a non-commercial flight. Thus, respondent no.9/ RP of Go Airlines cannot be permitted at this stage, to continue with these handling/maintenance flights.”
The decision came following an application filed by SMBC Aviation Capital Limited, one of the lessors of aircraft, saying that the RP has flown 2 aircraft owned by the petitioners without the court’s permission and disregarding the earlier order.
04/08/2023 Gaurav Joshi/Simple Flying
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