In red, Jet Airways suspends all ops as banks refuse to grant bailout fund
Teetering for over four months due to cash-drought, Jet Airways, flying for over 25 years, on Wednesday said its last flight will takeoff on Wednesday night, after its lenders refused to offer a Rs 400-crore lifeline.
“With immediate effect, we are compelled to cancel all our international and domestic flights. The last flight will operate today,” Jet Airways informed the exchanges.
The airline said the decision follows the lenders refusing to offer a lifeline.
“Since no emergency funding from the lenders or any other source is forthcoming, the airline will not be able to pay for fuel or other critical services to keep the operations going... And has decided to go ahead with temporary suspension of operations,” it said.
The last flight of the airline, left the Amritsar airport at 10.30pm for New Delhi.
After a board meeting on Tuesday, the management had authorised chief executive Vinay Dube to make one last appeal to the lenders for an emergency Rs 400 crore funding, and if not the demand is not met, take a final call on the future of the airline on Wednesday.
On Tuesday night, Jet Airways — which carries the slogan “the joy of flying” — was informed by SBI, on behalf of the consortium of lenders, that they were unable to consider its request for critical interim funding, the airline said in the statement.