Mumbai/New Delhi: A day after the collapse of Jet Airways’ agreement to acquire Air Sahara, both airlines began operating on their own today.
The management control of Air Sahara, which to a great extent had gone into Jet’s hands, was restored to Subroto Roy’s Sahara Group.
Air Sahara executives said the airline had written to the Directorate General of Civil Aviation, saying that its agreement to lease a wide-bodied plane to Jet be cancelled. Jet had deployed the aircraft for its international operations.
Jet Airways ended common ticket sales, passenger exchange, flight-swapping and corporate and agency agreements with Air Sahara.
Sources said Jet Airways had also dropped maintenance-checks for Air Sahara’s CRJ and Boeing 737 aircraft. It was also on the verge of terminating the vendor support arrangement for supply of spare parts.
Jet’s Thomas Kuhn, who was heading the engineering and maintenance wing of Air Sahara, and Poh Leong Choo, head of customer services and in-flight service departments, have been recalled.
23/06/06 Business Standard
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