Jet airways in Trouble.

I don't think we will have to wait long to find out, given there are only hours left until their extended deadline to offload up to 75% of the operation to some lucky bidder. I would suspect that outside of some opportunistic $1 bids there would not be much else on offer, so we should hear shortly as to what Plan B entails.
 
Time will tell.

It's all very political due to the current Indian election which goes for another few weeks, and the fact that the main banks are all state owned.

It's not quite just a financial analysis.
 
I don't think we will have to wait long to find out, given there are only hours left until their extended deadline to offload up to 75% of the operation to some lucky bidder. I would suspect that outside of some opportunistic $1 bids there would not be much else on offer, so we should hear shortly as to what Plan B entails.
Time for Jetstar India?
 
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Interesting times. Hard to see them surviving, certainly not long beyond the Indian election.

WF will now have to find a new partner - can’t imagine SQ will be giving them great pricing.

I’d expect JQ will aim to put capacity into India - they had quite a lot of frames o order with many planned as replacements - may need to hold them and redeploy ex-SIN into Indian destinations.

Good opportunity for someone but it’s been a bloodbath and the “natural” outcome would for existing carriers to soak up the lost capacity, maybe resulting in a more sustainable Indian market. Would be “brave” to setup another new carrier given the current politics, capacity and fares....
 
Qantas didn’t have to wait decades for Air India to relaunch though! They could have operated direct on their own metal.

I’m amazed SQ are giving codeshare to the Roo.
 
Qantas didn’t have to wait decades for Air India to relaunch though! They could have operated direct on their own metal.

I’m amazed SQ are giving codeshare to the Roo.

Is it codeshare? They may just be onselling QF does it with loads of airlines they have no formal partnerships with eg UA, Asiana etc
 
It seems like a High chance they will cease operations today (Wednesday). There is only 2 aircraft in the sky at this time being only 8.30pm local Indian time.

Another nightmare for Etihad.
 

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Late last night we were informed by SBI, on behalf of the consortium of Indian lenders, that they are unable to consider our request for interim funding. Since no emergency funding from the lenders or any other source of funding was forthcoming, it would therefore not have been possible for us to pay for fuel or other critical services to keep the operations going.
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those aircraft graveyards must be getting very full. Must be deals from hell around to lease aircraft, just like after SEP 11.
 
Not really. With the continuing 787 and 737Max issues I suspect these aircraft will get placed pretty quickly
 
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Surely this is the beginning of the end for Jet Airways. This situation seems unrecoverable....

Agree, but the preamble in the AFF Gazette has you saying 'it's unclear' if it will fly again.

"Unclear?" I'd suggest it will never.
 
Agree, but the preamble in the AFF Gazette has you saying 'it's unclear' if it will fly again.

"Unclear?" I'd suggest it will never.
Just reading a few of the articles it does seem that they are hoping to one day fly again. Maybe under a different name with a different business model?
 

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