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Friday, March 29, 2024
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Topic: SpiceJet

As Boeing struggles with 737 Max, SpiceJet considers dumping it for Airbus

SpiceJet may buy a ‘sizable’ number of Airbus A321LR and XLR jets to accommodate a planned expansion, Chairman Ajay Singh says.

DGCA has suspended 74 pilots in 8 months, nearly half of them for failing alcohol test

41 pilots were grounded for accidents endangering safety of aircraft and passengers, and 33 suspended for failing breathalyser test.

SpiceJet technician dies after getting stuck in landing-gear door at Kolkata Airport

The hydraulic flaps of the landing-gear doors of a Bombardier Q400 aircraft accidentally shut, trapping the SpiceJet technician and resulting in his death.

4 SpiceJet executives issued show cause notices over multiple landing incidents

The civil aviation regulator DGCA pulled up the SpiceJet executives after a special audit team of multiple landing incidents found lapses on their part.

DGCA issues safety instructions after SpiceJet skids off the runway

Airlines have been asked to refrain from landing with unstabilised approach while experiencing adverse weather conditions and initiate a go around.

Do risk assessment during adverse weather conditions, aviation regulator DGCA tells airlines

The Directorate General of Civil Aviation in India issued a circular after incidences of planes overshooting runways.

SpiceJet has got ‘several offers’ from investors who want a stake in the airline

SpiceJet will evaluate the offers only if it's strategic and serves its long term interests, says chairman Ajay Singh.

Boeing tells SpiceJet that 737 Max will be back in the air by July

SpiceJet, which had taken delivery of 13 Boeing Max jets before the model was grounded, still expects to receive as many as 25 more this financial year.

2 SpiceJet planes suffer mid-air glitches, pilots terminate journeys

The SpiceJet flights, one from Mumbai to Chennai and the other from Bengaluru to New Delhi, faced mid-air glitches, resulting in the planes being diverted.

Jet airways waits for a buyer as rivals muscle in on territory

Jet’s rivals are taking over its airport slots & aircraft and getting them back will be complicated, potentially leaving little to a possible new owner.

On Camera

Congress attacks chief economic advisor over statement on unemployment, asks BJP govt to ‘vacate seat’

While releasing 'India Employment Report 2024', V Anantha Nageswaran said govt can't solve 'all social, economic challenges'. Congress leader Kharge says CEA protecting 'dear leader'.

Amid plans to lift AFSPA, Army starts joint training with Jammu & Kashmir Police

In an interview with Gulistan News this week, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said the government would leave law and order to J&K Police and slowly withdraw troops.

For BJP, Kejriwal is an idea whose time has come to be destroyed

The ‘idea’ Kejriwal's politics grew around was a no-holds-barred fight against corruption. That is the reason Modi govt has now tarred him and his entire party with the same paint.