No-frills airline SpiceJet on Sunday announced the induction of a Boeing 737, taking its fleet size to 100 aircraft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
SpiceJet is the fourth domestic airline to achieve the feat after national carrier Air India, now-defunct Jet Airways and rival IndiGo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Eight domestic carriers Air India, IndiGo, SpiceJet, GoAir, Air India Express, Vistara, AirAsia and Alliance together have 595 planes in their fleet at the moment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWho could have thought that from the brink of closure in December 2014, SpiceJet would have a 100-aircraft fleet in 2019,\u201d SpiceJet chairman and managing director Ajay Singh said on the induction of 100th plane in the fleet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Gurugram-based budget carrier now has 68 Boeing 737s, 30 Bombardier Q-400s and two B737 freighters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The airline at present operates 575 daily flights on an average to 62 destinations 53 domestic and nine international, it said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
SpiceJet is a key player in the Union government\u2019s regional connectivity scheme UDAN operating 42 flights per day to and from various regional destinations, it added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cSpiceJet has added 23 planes and over a hundred new flights, most of them connecting the key metros of Mumbai and Delhi, in just over a month\u2019s time,\u201d the airline said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jet Airways, which ceased operations around mid-last month, had 120 planes in its fleet before going bust.Besides, GoAir has 49 planes, Air India Express 25, Vistara 22 snd AirAsia India 21 planes in their fleet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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