National oil marketer Indian Oil for the third time in a🍷 week on Thursday stopped fuel supply to cash-starved Jet Airways for non-payment of dues.
The airline also faced the ignominy of losing one of its planes to a European cargo agen༺t who seized one of its wide-body planes at the Amsterdam airport for payment related issues, a source said.
This is the third t🎐ime that the public sector oil marketing company has cut fuel supply to the airline in the past eight days, which is struggling to keep afloat amid acute liquidity crisis.
"IndianOil has stopped fuel supplies to Jet Airways in Mumbai, New Delhi and Hyderabad airports for its failure to clear dues,෴" the source said. Mumbai is the largest base for the airline and it operates maximum flights from the city.
On March 4 and 5 also theꦐ oil company had cut supplies to Jet and restored only after getting an assurance from ꦜthe airline management.
Earlier in the day, a European cargo⛄ services provider seized one of its Boeing 777-300ER planes at the Amsterdam airport for non-payment of dues.
The aircraft was to operate a flight (9W 321) to Mumbai from Amsterdam Thursday, an ⛦airline source said.
"The cargo agent seized Boeing 777-300 ER (VT-JꦍEW) of Jet Airways at the Amsterdam airport as the♚ airline could not clear his dues," the airline source told PTI.
The aircraft was to operate 🅷a flight (9W𝔍 321) to Mumbai from Amsterdam Thursday.
Jet Airways, however, said the 𝓀flight was delayed due to "operational reasons."꧑;
In a statement, the airline said flight 9W 231 from Amsterdam to Mumbai scheduled for April 10, has been delayed due to operational reasons. The airꦯcraft had flown to🍌 Amsterdam from Mumbai Tuesday and was to return Thursday.
Jet has been operating around 100 flights only with 26 planes as most of the fleet is grounded due toꦛ non-payment of lessors' rentals.
Due to cash crunch, the airline has been payi𝕴ng only part salaries to its over 16,000 employees which forced a section of its pilots on Tuesday sending a leꦉgal notice to the management which is currently being headed by the lenders led by State Bank.
(PTI)
