Business Standard

IndiGo suffered twice as many snags in 2017 but Jet fared worse: Here's how

In its revised data submitted to DGCA, IndiGo recently said its fleet, which undertook 311,809 domestic flights during the year, suffered as many as 14,628 snags

Image
Premium

Shivansh Jauhri New Delhi
India's biggest low-cost carrier, IndiGo, which had earlier reported only 340 technical snags to the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) in 2017, recently revised the data to report 14,628 snags in its fleet during the year – an increase of over 4,200 per cent. While the number now reported by IndiGo is clearly the highest among Indian carriers, the airline might still not be the worst performer on this count.

Earlier, in March, Minister of State for Civil Aviation Jayant Sinha had said the total number of snags across airlines in 2017 stood at 24,791. The Economic Times quoted

What you get on BS Premium?

  • Unlock 30+ premium stories daily hand-picked by our editors, across devices on browser and app.
  • Pick your 5 favourite companies, get a daily email with all news updates on them.
  • Full access to our intuitive epaper - clip, save, share articles from any device; newspaper archives from 2006.
  • Preferential invites to Business Standard events.
  • Curated newsletters on markets, personal finance, policy & politics, start-ups, technology, and more.
VIEW ALL FAQs

Need More Information - write to us at assist@bsmail.in