{"id":310396,"date":"2019-03-13T08:01:30","date_gmt":"2019-03-13T08:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=310396"},"modified":"2019-03-13T08:01:30","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T08:01:30","slug":"spicejet-cancels-14-flights-as-dgca-bans-boeing-737-max-8-aircraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/spicejet-cancels-14-flights-as-dgca-bans-boeing-737-max-8-aircraft\/","title":{"rendered":"SpiceJet Cancels 14 Flights as DGCA bans Boeing 737 Max 8 Aircraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-310397 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/spicejet-300x167.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/spicejet-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/spicejet.jpg 610w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">SpiceJet on Wednesday announced that they had cancelled 14 flights after the DGCA issued an order to ground all Boeing 737-MAX 8 aircraft and banned them from the Indian airspace from 4 pm.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In a statement, SpiceJet said, \u201cConsequent to the regulatory directive on the Boeing 737 Max, SpiceJet has already initiated grounding of its Max fleet. In order to cause the least inconvenience to its passengers and also bring these aircraft to its maintenance base we expect to complete this exercise on or before 4 pm today.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cSpiceJet has presently announced the cancellation of 14 flights for today and will be operating additional flights from tomorrow,\u201d the statement added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">It further said, \u201cOf the 76 planes in our fleet, 64 aircraft are in operations and we are confident of minimizing the inconvenience to our passengers and attain normalcy in our operations. While a majority of passengers affected as a result of these cancellations have been accommodated by SpiceJet on alternate flights, rest have been offered a full refund.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cSafety and security of our passengers, crew and operations are of utmost importance to us and we are closely working with the regulator and manufacturer to resolve the matter,\u201d it said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">An official of the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on Wednesday said that all Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft will be grounded in India by 4 pm.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Civil aviation ministry has called an emergency meeting of all airlines at 4 pm today over the grounding of Boeing 737-Max planes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A\u2009statement by the ministry of civil aviation states, \u201cIn continuation to the decision of DGCA to ground the B737 Max operations, further clarification follows. B737Max operations Will stop from\/to all Indian airport&#8217;s. Additionally, no B737 Max aircraft will be allowed to enter or transit Indian airspace effective 1600hrs IST or 1030 UTC. \u201c<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">It further said, \u201cthe timeline is to cater to situations where aircraft can be positioned at maintenance facilities &amp; international flights can reach their destinations.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpiceJet on Wednesday announced that they had cancelled 14 flights after the DGCA issued an order to ground all Boeing 737-MAX 8 aircraft and banned them from the Indian airspace from 4 pm. In a statement, SpiceJet said, \u201cConsequent to the regulatory directive on the Boeing 737 Max, SpiceJet has already initiated grounding of its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":310397,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[11084,2951,11082],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310396"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310398,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310396\/revisions\/310398"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/310397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}