The development took place after the no-frill airline's Chief Operating Officer Sanjiv Kapoor met Civil Aviation Minister Ashok Gajapathi Raju late evening, with official sources saying that the government has asked it to continue operations over the next fortnight.
The sources indicated that the AAI, which had given time to SpiceJet till today to clear its dues, would not press the deadline and give the airline more time to pay up.
During the day, the airline, which has a liability burden of over Rs 2,000 crore, sought urgent financial help from the government to run its daily operations but received no categorical assurances from it.
Kapoor and S L Narayanan, Chief Financial Officer of its parent company Sun Group, met Minister of State for Civil Aviation Mahesh Sharma and pleaded for "urgent relief".
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"No assurance has been given to them," Sharma told reporters after the meeting but said any such decision could be taken at the "highest level" in the government.
The meeting came hours after the airline officials met DGCA chief Prabhat Kumar and shared an operational plan, but official sources said there was "nothing new" in it.
DGCA had also given the airline time till today to release pending salaries of employees and submit a schedule on how it plans to pay vendor dues of about Rs 1,600 crore.
In a tweet later, Kapoor said, "No financial plan submitted to DGCA today. Objective of meeting was to discuss financial impact of 30-day booking limit on the airline."
The airline's total liability stands at over Rs 2,000 crore and it needs at least Rs 1,400 crore immediately to keep it off the ground.