An aspiring British Airways ticketing agent was detained yesterday for making a false bomb threat to a SpiceJet flight. The airlines had paused the departure and undertaken a careful search after receiving the call yesterday. However, investigators did not discover anything unusual on the Continue Reading
On Wednesday night, a SpiceJet flight from Goa made an emergency landing at Hyderabad airport after smoke was spotted in the cabin and cockpit. According to sources, the aviation regulator DGCA is looking into the incident. Passengers exited safely through the emergency exit when the plane touched down. A DGCA representative said that one passenger […]Continue Reading
A day after the civil aviation ministry announced it would lift the price caps on tickets it had put in place owing to the coronavirus outbreak two years prior, shares of domestic Indian carriers increased. Tickets can now be priced freely by domestic carriers IndiGo, SpiceJet Ltd, Air India, Go First, and Vistara, a joint […]Continue Reading
Following an unusually high number of safety incidents involving the airline, the aviation regulator today ordered low-cost carrier SpiceJet to operate only 50% of its flights for eight weeks. In the slow travel season, SpiceJet claimed that this would not affect its flights and that no flights would be canceled. “In view of findings of […]Continue Reading
In response to SpiceJet’s increasing number of air safety problems, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on Tuesday issued a show-cause notice. The aviation safety authority noted in its notice that after reviewing the numerous incidents that have occurred since April 1 of this year, it was determined that “poor internal safety oversight” and Continue Reading
The crew of a SpiceJet flight bound for Jabalpur decided to turn around this morning after noticing smoke in the cabin, according to news agency ANI. The crew noticed smoke in the cabin while the aircraft was 5,000 feet in the air. According to ANI, a SpiceJet representative said, “A SpiceJet aircraft travelling from Delhi […]Continue Reading
The Directorate General of Civil Aviation has ordered the withdrawal of all Boeing 737 Max 8 aeroplanes from service by today evening. The decision has come few days after a similar flight operated by the Ethiopian Airlines crashed killing as many as 157 people –it was the second such crash suffered by a Boeing 737 […]Continue Reading
SpiceJet’s Chief Operating Officer Sanjiv Kapoor quits today, nearly ten months after original promoter Ajay Singh took over the control of the budget airline. He was appointed by then owner Kalanithi Maran in November 2013.The SpiceJet sources said that his abrupt resignation comes over a year before the expiry of his employment contract. After the […]Continue Reading
Spice Jet announces the launch of red-eye flight services which is to start on the Delhi-Bangalore and Delhi-Nanded route from November 2. It was also reported that there is a plan to add as many as six more same services as a part of its winter schedule. So far only Jet Airways and IndiGo are offering the red-eye […]Continue Reading
SpiceJet has announced its new offer of tickets at a base fare of Rs.1 as part of a sale. It has reported that more than one lakh of one-way tickets are available at this rate. The rate of the ticket is excluding the taxes and fees. SpiceJet has also mentioned that however for the round- trip travelling the […]Continue Reading