SpiceJet inducts Boeing 737 as 100th plane in its fleet
May 27, 2019: Budget airline SpiceJet has inducted a Boeing 737, taking its fleet size to 100 aircraft.
The airline’s operating revenues were at Rs 2,531.3 crore for the reported quarter and Rs 9113.2 crore for the fiscal 2019.
May 27, 2019: Budget airline SpiceJet has inducted a Boeing 737, taking its fleet size to 100 aircraft.
In a statement, the low-cost carrier said: "SpiceJet has added 23 planes and over a hundred new flights, most of them connecting the key metros of Mumbai and Delhi, in just over a month's time."
SpiceJet became the fourth domestic airline to have 100 planes in its fleet after national carrier Air India, now defunct Jet Airways and rival IndiGo.
"Who could have thought that from the brink of closure in December 2014, SpiceJet would have a 100-aircraft fleet in 2019," SpiceJet chairman and managing director Ajay Singh said on the induction of 100th plane in the fleet. The budget carrier now has 68 Boeing 737s, 30 Bombardier Q-400s and two B737 freighters.
The Gurugram-based airline had placed a $22 billion order for 205 aircraft with Boeing in 2015 and had followed it up with a $1.7 billion order for 50 Bombardier Q400 planes.
The airline at present operates 575 daily flights on an average to 62 destinations 53 domestic and nine international, it said. It is a key player in the Union government's regional connectivity scheme UDAN operating 42 flights per day to and from various regional destinations.
