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Engaging P&W to get grounded jets back into service: IndiGo
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SME Times News Bureau | 20 Mar, 2018
Low-cost carrier IndiGo on Tuesday said that it is "actively engaged"
with engine manufacturer -- Pratt & Whitney (P&W) -- to get all
of its grounded aircraft back in operation.
According to
IndiGo's President and Whole-Time Director Aditya Ghosh: "We are
actively engaged with engine manufacturer on getting all our aircraft
back in the skies in the coming weeks."
"Two of our grounded NEOs VT-ITX and VT-IVE are already back in service today."
Ghosh's
assertion comes days after the Directorate General of Civil Aviation on
March 12 asked IndiGo and GoAir to ground 11 A320neo aircraft fitted
with PW1100 engines.
Of the 11, eight were operated by IndiGo
while GoAir flew three. After DGCA's direction, all the A320neo
aircraft with PW1100 engines beyond serial number 450 have been taken
off operations in India.
Previously, the DGCA had ordered
grounding of three aircraft in IndiGo's A320neo fleet after the European
Aviation Safety Agency issued an emergency airworthiness directive
regarding similar A320neos on February 9.
Last week, P&W
President Robert F. Leduc had said that the grounded aircraft belonging
to IndiGo and GoAir will be back in operation by April-end.
"You
may have seen that the Indian authorities took a decision to ground the
fleet in India that have engines of this that had the design escape.
We're disappointed with that decision, but I can tell you that by the
end of April, that fleet will be back up in the air flying in India,"
Leduc had said during a recent UTC investors' call.
"So I think
the three key points that you should take away is we're back in
production, we're going to retrofit and rework the 55 engines that we
shipped previously back to Airbus. We will make our full year production
commitment to Airbus.
"We have a commitment to them, there's
still a certain amount of engines to support their aircraft delivery
profile. We will make those deliveries. Admittedly, the timing is a
little bit skewed because of the first quarter and having to rework
engines, but we will catch that up primarily by the end of the third
quarter. the fleet will be completely back in the sky by the end of
April," he added
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