In a transcript of instant messages between two employees, the 737 MAX's then-chief technical pilot, Mark Forkner, said the so-called MCAS anti-stall system in the airplane was \"running rampant\" in a flight simulator session. The system has been tied to the crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia that together killed 346 people

SpiceJet has also introduced new flights on the Chennai-Thiruvananthapuram-Chennai sector.

\"Lessors are in touch with us for MAX aircraft including those. There is an opportunity to backfill, to make up for some of the lost time,\" says SpiceJet Chairman Ajay Singh

The new flights covering several cities on domestic routes will begin in phases from 27th October, 2019.

The DGCA had banned Boeing's Max 737 planes in March this year; the ban hit SpiceJet hard as its fleet of 13 Max 737 planes was operating till the DGCA's new order came in

SpiceJet said that the consolidation of operations (both passenger and cargo) will help it efficiently provide service to thousands of passengers travelling on the airline to and from the Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport across both its domestic and international networks by bringing all the operations under one terminal

Low-cost carrier SpiceJet has reported its highest-ever net profit at Rs 261.7 crore for the June quarter as against a loss of Rs 37.9 crore in the same quarter last year.

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SpiceJet said that the flights to Dhaka and Jeddah will begin from the last week of July, while the flight to Riyadh will commence on August 15, 2019

Captain Asim Valiani, President of the pilot union National Aviators Guild said that many employees did not accept good offers because they believed that revival was on the cards

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The airline industry has been pitching for bringing Aviation Turbine Fuel (ATF) under the Goods and Services Tax (GST). Jet fuel accounts for more than 40 per cent of an airline's operational cost

Noting that the grounding of Jet Airways was very sad, Singh said that internal factors and high costs were among the reasons for its failure.