DGCA relieves SpiceJet, lifts 30-day booking restriction
17 Dec 2014 12:53 AM GMT
"The one-month booking ceiling imposed on SpiceJet has been taken off and the airline allowed to book tickets beyond 30 days till March next year," government sources said here. The DGCA breather to the airline comes a day after SpiceJet's Chief Operating Officer Sanjiv Kapoor, along with Sun Group CFO S L Narayanan, met Civil Aviation Minister Ashok Gajapathy Raju and DGCA Prabhat Kumar and sought the government's help to overcome the crisis.
"No financial plan submitted to DGCA. Objective of meeting was to discuss financial impact of 30-day booking limit on the airline," Kapoor had tweeted on Monday after the meeting.
DGCA had on December 5 withdrawn 186 of SpiceJet's slots and directed it not to take bookings of
flights over one month, among other measures following large-scale cancellations by the carrier.
SpiceJet was given a breather on Monday after the state — run Airports Authority of India allowed it some time to clear Rs 200 crore dues following the airline's promoter Kalanithi Maran giving a personal guarantees to infuse more funds. Meanwhile, Minister of State for Civil Aviation Mahesh Sharma said that there was no question of any bail out to the beleaguered carrier.
"The government has no intention to give any package to any private operators or player," he told reporters during an interaction here.
"But something (solution) is being worked out in the larger interest of aviation industry and the passengers," he said.
The situation in the aviation sector was "a cause of stress", Sharma said. "It is not a good thing that the private players are succumbing..."
The government is discussing "special measures" for the aviation sector, he said, noting, "I assure you that within a very short period of 3-6 months, you will see the positive changes (in the sector) definitely."
The airline has been losing money and Maran, who owns majority stake in the airline, has already brought in about Rs 250 crore in the airline this year but to no avail. The airline's total liability stands at over Rs 2,000 crore and it needs at least Rs 1,400 crore immediately to keep it off the ground.
SpiceJet scrip dives by 17%,...flies back to end 2.6% up
Erasing steep initial losses, shares of SpiceJet ended with over 2.5 per cent gain on Tuesday after the company got a breather as the Airports Authority indicated that it would not press for immediate clearance of its Rs 200 crore dues. After falling sharply by 16.97 per cent to Rs 11.25 in intra-day trade, shares of SpiceJet finally ended at Rs 13.90, up 2.58 per cent from its previous close on the BSE.
"No financial plan submitted to DGCA. Objective of meeting was to discuss financial impact of 30-day booking limit on the airline," Kapoor had tweeted on Monday after the meeting.
DGCA had on December 5 withdrawn 186 of SpiceJet's slots and directed it not to take bookings of
flights over one month, among other measures following large-scale cancellations by the carrier.
SpiceJet was given a breather on Monday after the state — run Airports Authority of India allowed it some time to clear Rs 200 crore dues following the airline's promoter Kalanithi Maran giving a personal guarantees to infuse more funds. Meanwhile, Minister of State for Civil Aviation Mahesh Sharma said that there was no question of any bail out to the beleaguered carrier.
"The government has no intention to give any package to any private operators or player," he told reporters during an interaction here.
"But something (solution) is being worked out in the larger interest of aviation industry and the passengers," he said.
The situation in the aviation sector was "a cause of stress", Sharma said. "It is not a good thing that the private players are succumbing..."
The government is discussing "special measures" for the aviation sector, he said, noting, "I assure you that within a very short period of 3-6 months, you will see the positive changes (in the sector) definitely."
The airline has been losing money and Maran, who owns majority stake in the airline, has already brought in about Rs 250 crore in the airline this year but to no avail. The airline's total liability stands at over Rs 2,000 crore and it needs at least Rs 1,400 crore immediately to keep it off the ground.
SpiceJet scrip dives by 17%,...flies back to end 2.6% up
Erasing steep initial losses, shares of SpiceJet ended with over 2.5 per cent gain on Tuesday after the company got a breather as the Airports Authority indicated that it would not press for immediate clearance of its Rs 200 crore dues. After falling sharply by 16.97 per cent to Rs 11.25 in intra-day trade, shares of SpiceJet finally ended at Rs 13.90, up 2.58 per cent from its previous close on the BSE.
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