Jet Airways Likely To Resume Operations, In Talks With Chennai Airport Authorities

Jet airways had initially planned operations to 14 destinations including Chennai, Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Goa, Bengaluru and Aizawl and the initial focus was to provide metro-to-metro connectivity.

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Chennai: Jet Airways, which collapsed in 2019, has resumed talks with Chennai airport authorities to park it’s aircraft at its facility and likely to resume operations from January or from Summer of 2022 if the talk goes well, according to reports. 

Quoting sources, a report in the New Indian Express said that Jet Airways plans to begin its operations with one night parking slot in Chennai as the airways plans to resume its operations with six aircrafts. 

Pointing out that the airways was already in talks with Chennai airport authorities, the report said that they would be launching four flights between Chennai and Mumbai once it resumes operations and this would be a full service carrier with some tweaks. Both long and short-haul international operations could be expected, the report said. 

The report said that the airways had initially planned operations to 14 destinations including Chennai, Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Goa, Bengaluru, Kolkata, Mangalore and Aizawl and the initial focus was to provide metro-to-metro connectivity.

The report said that the airways was also in talks with Mumbai and Delhi airport authorities for night parking slots. 

Pointing out that the airways was planning to resume international operations at least a year after resuming domestic operations, the report said that Jet Airways was planning to have at least 20 aircrafts in the domestic market and were in plans to include ten more aircrafts within three months after the launch. 

The airways is planning to use Boeing’s 737 Max both for its domestic and international operations. The director general of civil aviation along with the Indian air safety regulator has approved the aircraft to fly with immediate effect after ending 2.5 years of regulatory grounding, the report said.