SpiceJet flights cancelled and delayed due to lack of fuel
- 5 years ago
SpiceJet nosedived into further turbulence on Tuesday with flight cancellations and delays, amid pressure from oil marketing companies (OMCs) for payment of long-pending dues.
Around 1,200 passengers of an Ahmedabad-Goa flight via Delhi experienced a harrowing ordeal, with the aircraft getting delayed for around three hours at Ahmedabad for lack of fuel.
According to the passengers, SpiceJet made them to sit inside the plane for almost three hours until they forced the airline to arrange for fuel. According to reports, all evening flights at Dabolim Airport in Goa were cancelled.According to one passenger, Alpesh Joshi, the passengers vehemently protested the delay.
“SpiceJet has started operating like a taxi service. They have no money to buy fuel and are harassing passengers. The airline didn’t react even after an asthmatic patient suffered an attack,” Joshi told Mail Today when the plane arrived at IGI Airport.
Problems continued even after the aircraft touched down at IGI Airport with SpiceJet officials informing the passengers that all the flights from Delhi were cancelled due to lack of fuel and bad weather.
When the passengers demanded refunds, SpiceJet officials at Terminal 1-D informed them that they would have to wait for 30-40 days.
Most SpiceJet flights were either cancelled or delayed until the afternoon due to lack of fuel. The Airports Authority of India (AAI) and OMCs have placed the no-frills carrier in a cash-and-carry mode, under which the airline has to pay every time it uses facilities navigation, luggage handling, parking, etc.
Meanwhile, the civil aviation ministry said that it may ask banks and financial institutions to extend loans of up to Rs 600 crore to the airline as part of measures to keep the carrier functional.
It will also request the finance ministry to permit external commercial borrowing for working capital as special dispensation, according to a ministry release.
“These and many more suggestions have been approved by civil aviation minister Ashok Gajapathi Raju after due consideration as a shutdown would have been a major setback to the aviation sector,” the release added.
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Around 1,200 passengers of an Ahmedabad-Goa flight via Delhi experienced a harrowing ordeal, with the aircraft getting delayed for around three hours at Ahmedabad for lack of fuel.
According to the passengers, SpiceJet made them to sit inside the plane for almost three hours until they forced the airline to arrange for fuel. According to reports, all evening flights at Dabolim Airport in Goa were cancelled.According to one passenger, Alpesh Joshi, the passengers vehemently protested the delay.
“SpiceJet has started operating like a taxi service. They have no money to buy fuel and are harassing passengers. The airline didn’t react even after an asthmatic patient suffered an attack,” Joshi told Mail Today when the plane arrived at IGI Airport.
Problems continued even after the aircraft touched down at IGI Airport with SpiceJet officials informing the passengers that all the flights from Delhi were cancelled due to lack of fuel and bad weather.
When the passengers demanded refunds, SpiceJet officials at Terminal 1-D informed them that they would have to wait for 30-40 days.
Most SpiceJet flights were either cancelled or delayed until the afternoon due to lack of fuel. The Airports Authority of India (AAI) and OMCs have placed the no-frills carrier in a cash-and-carry mode, under which the airline has to pay every time it uses facilities navigation, luggage handling, parking, etc.
Meanwhile, the civil aviation ministry said that it may ask banks and financial institutions to extend loans of up to Rs 600 crore to the airline as part of measures to keep the carrier functional.
It will also request the finance ministry to permit external commercial borrowing for working capital as special dispensation, according to a ministry release.
“These and many more suggestions have been approved by civil aviation minister Ashok Gajapathi Raju after due consideration as a shutdown would have been a major setback to the aviation sector,” the release added.
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