Etihad Airways puts its partner Jet Airways in a difficult position

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Etihad Airways, a major investor in Indian-based Jet Airways owning 24 percent of this carrier, has cancelled its plan to lease three Boeing 777 aircraft, putting Jet Airways in a difficult situation.

Etihad Airways, a major investor in Indian-based Jet Airways owning 24 percent of this carrier, has cancelled its plan to lease three Boeing 777 aircraft, putting Jet Airways in a difficult situation. This was reported by the Indian Economic Times.

eTN received a statement from Etihad Airways denying this report. It was received after this article was first published.
Please click on the link below this article to read Etihad’s statement.

These aircraft, B 777-300 ERs, were with the Turkish Airlines and have recently come back to Jet AirwaysBSE 0.54% after completing the lease period, an airline source told PTI here.

Jet Airways may use these planes in its long-haul operations. Jet Airways is dealing with several issues including problem with its pilots.

Jet was earlier planning to induct these wide-bodied planes to its international operations. However, after Etihad’s proposal, it discontinued the plan at that time.

The airline has been facing a tough time from its pilots as well as the regulator DGCA for quite some time now.

DGCA had recently suspended two Jet pilots after issuing notices to 131 pilots for not meeting mandatory licensing requirements.

The airline has over 1,000 pilots, while its subsidiary JetLite has about 190 pilots.

Jet Airways is India’s second largest carrier.

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