NEW DELHI: Due to its current Rs 3,000-crore funding, SpiceJet has knowledgeable the Directorate Normal of Civil Aviation (DGCA) it plans to have all its grounded planes again within the air inside 18-24 months. Ajay Singh’s airline has earmarked Rs 400 crore for spares, upkeep and engineering for this process. And within the interim, it should additionally wet-lease some planes (rent planes with working crew) to spice up capability, that is what SpiceJet engineering crew knowledgeable the DGCA final Friday when the airline was known as for his or her post-funding plans concerning operational fleet measurement.The transfer comes at a time when the regulator is finalising the winter schedule of flights that shall be efficient from this month finish. “The airline knowledgeable seven grounded plane shall be flying once more by the calendar year-end,” stated sources. Earlier than it not too long ago secured funding, greater than half of SpiceJet fleet had been grounded. As on June 30, 2024, 36 of SpiceJet’s 64 planes had been grounded. And of the 28 airworthy planes, barely just a few had been flying. After securing the funding not too long ago, SpiceJet CMD Ajay Singh had instructed TOI that the airline goals to have a fleet of 100 plane by the top of 2026.
