Lessor orders India’s SpiceJet to ground three B737s

Dubai Aerospace Enterprise has served SpiceJet with a notice immediately requiring three of its B737s to be grounded due to payments that have allegedly lapsed over a period of five months, unnamed government sources told the Hindu Business Line newspaper on April 7. The grounding notice was reportedly sent both to the airline and to India’s civil aviation authority, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation, earlier this month. According to the ch-aviation fleets advanced module, the three jets were leased to Jet Airways until the end of March 2019 and joined the SpiceJet fleet on May 22 and May 28 of that year. SpiceJet currently operates forty aircraft of the type as part of its 102-strong fleet. “A notice has been sent to both the DGCA and SpiceJet regarding the grounding. DAE has also written to SpiceJet seeking an Aerodrome Entry Permit for one of its representatives,” a source said.<br/>