SME Times News Bureau | 27 May, 2019
Budget airline SpiceJet on Sunday said it has added a new Boeing 737
aircraft to its fleet, taking its total strength to 100 aircraft.
SpiceJet
is the fourth domestic airline to have 100 aircraft in its fleet, after
Air India, IndiGo, and the now grounded Jet Airways.
Its fleet
now comprises of 68 Boeing 737s, 30 Bombardier Q-400s and two Boeing 737
freighter aircraft, SpiceJet said in a statement. The airline operates
575 average daily flights to 62 destinations - 53 domestic and nine
international.
The airline says it has added 23 planes and over 100 new flights over the past one month.
SpiceJet
had placed a $22 billion order for 205 aircraft planes with Boeing in
2015 and had followed it up with a $1.7 billion order for 50 Bombardier
Q400 planes.