SME Times News Bureau | 19 Mar, 2019
Minister for Civil Aviation Suresh Prabhu Tuesday
directed Secretary and senior officials of DGCA to take stock of grounding of
planes by Jet Airways, Advance Bookings, Cancellations, Refund and Safety
issues.
As per the direction of Hon’ble Minister, DGCA
reviewed the performance of Jet Airways on Operational, Airworthiness &
Passenger facilitation today.
Current availability of aircraft in the fleet for
operation is 41 and accordingly scheduled for 603 domestic flights and 382
international flights has been drawn. However, it is a dynamic situation
and there may be further attrition in coming weeks.
DGCA instructed the airline to comply with the
relevant provisions of the applicable CARs for facilitation of Passengers
regarding timely communication, compensation, refunds and providing alternate
flights wherever applicable.
The data is being monitored by DGCA on regular
basis.
DGCA is ensuring that all aircraft in the fleet
whether in operation or on ground are maintained in accordance with Approved
Maintenance Programme (AMP).
The operator was also directed to ensure that no
Pilots/Cabin Crew/AMEs be rostered on duty who had reported stress of any
nature.
Additionally, all such staff should be current
with all mandatory training requirements.
Prabhu has directed all the concerned officials
to continuously monitor overall situation.
He has also directed them to safeguard the public
interest, to give paramount importance to public safety and to take necessary
steps for passenger convenience.