Zee Media Bureau
New Delhi: A week after the government ruled out any bail-out measures for SpiceJet, the beleaguered airline on Monday sought the help of the Centre in running its flight operations.
Trapped in financial crisis, the airline had cancelled a large number of flights operating just 232 flights in October, as against 339 in September.
Responding to the request of the airline, MoS for Ministry of Civil Aviation Mahesh Sharma said the decision will be taken at the highest level in the government.
Last week on December 7, the Government ruled out any bail-out measure to cash-strapped budget carrier SpiceJet.
Civil Aviation Minister Ashok Gajapathy Raju also justfied the actions taken by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation against the airline including withdrawal of its unused slots for flight operations.
The Minister, however, expressed the hope that SpiceJet will come out of the current financial crisis.
"We hope not. We hope they (SpiceJet) will be able to fly out of the financial turbulence which they are going through," he said when asked whether the airline was going the grounded Kingfisher Airlines way.
