The airline has also hired around 1,000 Jet employees including pilots to run these aircraft, SpiceJet management earlier said. Analysts claim that SpiceJet decided to lease Jet Airways’s planes after 12 of its own Boeing 737 Max planes were grounded in March after an Ethiopian Airlines’s plane crashed the same month. Industry sources said right from the start, leasing planes that earlier belonged to Jet cost much more for SpiceJet as B737 NGs are in great demand following the grounding of B737 Max planes around the world. Moreover, the seat configuration of Jet Airways is another problem which SpiceJet is struggling with to bring down the operational costs. There is no sufficient data available to compare operational costs of Jet Airways’s B737 NGs with the planes in SpiceJet’s fleet.

Source: dna May 01, 2019 23:37 UTC