The government on Tuesday warned against further attrition of Jet Airways flights as the situation is ‘dynamic.’ The airline has 41 aircrafts available for operation currently, of the 119 in total, DGCA said.
“The DGCA reviewed the performance of Jet Airways on operational, airworthiness & passenger facilitation today. Current availability of aircraft in the fleet for operation is 41 and accordingly scheduled for 603 domestic flights and 382 international flights has been drawn. However, it is a dynamic situation and there may be further attrition in coming weeks”, news agency PTI reported citing DGCA spokesperson.
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DGCA also instructed the airline to comply with “the relevant provisions of the applicable CARs (Civil Aviation Requirements) for facilitation of passengers regarding timely communication, compensation, refunds and providing alternate flights wherever applicable”, PTI also reported the company spokesperson as saying.
On Tuesday, Aviation Minister Suresh Prabhu had directed his ministry’s secretary to hold an emergency meeting with the debt-ridden Jet Airways on account of its massively cancelling flights after grounding of a large part of its fleet.
“Directed Secretary, @MOCA GOI to hold an emergency meeting on grounding of flights by Jet Airways, advance bookings, cancellations, refunds and safety issues, if any,” Prabhu had said in a tweet.
“Asked him (civil aviation secretary) to get a report on Jet compliance issues immediately from DGCA,” he added.
The engineer’s body on Monday had written to DGCA seeking its intervention in the recovery of their salary dues, saying non-payment was affecting their psychological condition which, in turn, was a risk to the airline’s flight operations.