By Aditi Shah
By Aditi Shah
NEW DELHI, Jan 13 (Reuters) – India’s aviation regulator has given IndiGo extra time to interchange the Pratt & Whitney engines on its fleet of Airbus A320neo planes which have been linked to in-flight engine shutdowns, a press release launched by the watchdog stated on Monday.
The Directorate Normal of Civil Aviation (DGCA) in November stated IndiGo, the nation’s largest airline, should exchange the engines by January 31, after 4 incidents of in-flight engine shutdowns inside per week triggered “critical concern”.
The DGCA has now given IndiGo till Could 31, saying that whereas the regulator was obliged to arrange a decent deadline it was additionally supposed to “spur frenetic motion on the a part of all stakeholders”.
“The airline and the plane and the engine producer have made important efforts in direction of completion of the duty,” it stated within the assertion, including that they’d submitted an in depth plan to the regulator for procuring the 135 alternative engines nonetheless required.
…