SME Times News Bureau | 30 Nov, 2020
Airline major SpiceJet on Sunday said that its seaplane operations will
restart from December 15 after they were temporarily suspended due to
mandatory aircraft maintenance.
Last month, the airline company
had launched a seaplane service between Ahmedabad (Sabarmati riverfront)
and the Statue of Unity in Kevadia, Gujarat.
The flight service
is operated by SpiceJet's fully-owned subsidiary, Spice Shuttle, and a
15-seater Twin Otter 300 aircraft has been deployed for these flights.
"Since
the maintenance facility (dry and wet dock) is still under construction
at Ahmedabad, the aircraft had to be sent to our lessor's facility at
Maldives," a SpiceJet spokesperson said.
"The operation will
resume on December 15 once the aircraft is back. The maintenance
facility at Ahmedabad should be ready soon which would ensure that
future maintenance is done here itself. As the maintenance was
pre-planned, we didn't take any bookings beyond November 27th."
