MUMBAI: Jet Airways Wednesday withdrew five more aircraft from service owing to non-payment of lease
rentals, taking the total number of such non-operational aircraft to 37.
Naresh Goyal, the chairman of the cash-starved airline earlier this week had said more than 50 airplanes are not in
operations now.
The airline has a fleet of 119 planes, including five Boeing 737 Max, as per its website.
Since February 7, the airline for the first time had informed the exchanges of grounding of four planes on account
of rental payment defaults, it has withdrawn 37 of planes till Wednesday from service.
However, the actual number of grounded planes is much higher as Goyal, in a letter to the airline’s equity partner
Etihad Airways chief executive Tony Douglas, last week had said over 50 aircraft are out of operations.
In a filing to the stock exchanges Wednesday, the airline said, “an additional five aircraft have been grounded
due to non-payment of rentals to the lessors under their respective lease agreements.” (AGENCIES)
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