Jet Airways suspends flight to Dhaka

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Published : 19:21, Mar 23, 2019 | Updated : 20:11, Mar 23, 2019

A Jet Airways Boeing 737-800 passenger plane takes off from Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad February 1, 2013. . REUTERS/File PhotoIndia’s crisis-hit Jet Airways has suspended operations on as many as 13 more international routes including Dhaka till end-April.
Besides, the airlines also scaled down frequencies on seven other overseas routes, mostly from Delhi and Mumbai, PTI reports quoting airline sources.
However, the airline has not yet informed the changes about these reduction and suspension of services.
The airline has suspended its flight from Kolkata and Delhi to Dhaka till Apr 30.
Other routes where services have been temporarily withdrawn include Bangalore-Singapore, Delhi-Abu Dhabi, Delhi-Dammam, Delhi-Hong Kong, Delhi-Riyadh, Mumbai-Abu Dhabi, Mumbai-Bahrain, Mumbai-Dammam, Mumbai-Hong Kong, Pune-Abu Dhabi and Pune-Singapore.
Gasping for funds the airline has also reduced services on the Delhi - Bangkok route from 3 to 1 daily, Delhi - Kathmandu (4 to 2 daily), Delhi - Singapore (3 to 1 daily), Mumbai - Bangkok (3 to 1 daily), Mumbai - Doha (2 to 1 daily), Mumbai - Kuwait City (2 to 1 daily) and Mumbai - Singapore (3 to 1 daily).
According to media reports, Jet has a total debt of Rs 80 billion crore in addition to payables such as vendors' dues worth Rs 150 billion.

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