Mumbai: Jet Airways slots: DGCA to respond

Mumbai:

Ministry of civil aviation

and the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) will be filing an affidavit, explaining their decision on Jet Airways airport slots. The affidavit will be submitted to the bankruptcy court on April 5.

Early this month, the ministry and DGCA told the National Company Law Tribunal that Jet Airways would have to apply afresh for its airport slots that were handed over to other airlines after the carrier was grounded in April 2019. On March 19, Kalrock-Jalan

consortium

, the resolution applicant of Jet Airways, filed an affidavit before the court listing reasons why the slots should remain with Jet. “During today’s hearing, the DGCA and ministry

lawyers

said they wanted to file a response to the resolution applicant’s affidavit,” said a source. Manju.V