Jet Airways, yesterday, entered a holding pattern, as an emergency funding of INR 1,500 crores was approved following the exit of Naresh Goyal from the board of the airline. Jet Airways was in a downward spiral, with most of the operational fleet being grounded in the past two months. As of March 25, 2019, Jet Airways had an operational fleet of just 36 aircraft out of 114 aircraft. Here is a list of all the grounded and repossessed aircraft.

Aircraft type	Aircraft Registration	Status	Airport Grounded At	Last Flight	Last Flight on	Notes
737-700	VT-JGX	Grounded	Mumbai	9W 462 MAA-BOM	March 29, 2019
737-700	VT-JGY	Grounded	Delhi	9W 715 VNS-DEL	February 10, 2019
737-700	VT-SIZ	Grounded	Hyderabad	S2 9715 BOM-HYD	March 21, 2019
737-700	VT-SJA	Grounded	Mumbai	S2 462 MAA-BOM	March 20, 2019	BOM-HYD on March 23, 2019
737-800	VT-JBB	Grounded	Mumbai	9W 543 DXB-BOM	March 18, 2019	Back on March 25, 2019 9W 560 BOM-DOH. AOG on April 11, 2019 after 9W 263 KTM-DEL
737-800	VT-JBC	Grounded	Delhi	9W 9719 CCU-DEL	March 20, 2019	Back on March 27, 2019 9W 651 DEL-IXC. AOG on April 10, 2019 after 9W 373 DEL-BOM
737-800	VT-JBD	Grounded	Bengaluru	9W 884 MAA-BLR	March 11, 2019
737-800	VT-JBE	Grounded	Hyderabad	BOM-HYD	March 13, 2019
737-800	VT-JBF	Grounded	Hyderabad	BOM-HYD	March 12, 2019
737-800	VT-JBG	Grounded	Hyderabad	9W 9701 COK-HYD	October 12, 2018
737-800	VT-JBH	Redelivered	Hyderabad	9W 9671 DEL-HYD	February 16, 2019	Redelivery (March 7, 2019)
737-800	VT-JBJ	Grounded	Delhi	BLR-DEL	March 21, 2019	Back on March 30, 2019 9W 846 DEL-ATQ. AOG on April 11, 2019 after 9W 304 DEL-BOM
737-800	VT-JBK	Grounded	Delhi	9W 17 SIN-DEL	March 18, 2019	Back on March 26, 2019 9W 272 DEL-DAC. AOG on April 10, 2019 after 9W 483 BOM-BLR
737-800	VT-JBL	Grounded	Mumbai	9W 990 BHJ-BOM	October 15, 2018
737-800	VT-JBM	Redelivered	Seletar		February 9, 2019	Redelivery
737-800	VT-JBN	Redelivered	Seletar		February 8, 2019	Redelivery
737-800	VT-JBP	Redelivered	Seletar		February 23, 2019	Redelivery
737-800	VT-JBQ	Grounded	Mumbai	9W 442 BLR-BOM	March 29, 2019
737-800	VT-JBR	Grounded	Delhi	9W 301 BOM-DEL	March 26, 2019
737-800	VT-JBS	Grounded	Delhi	BOM-DEL	March 31, 2019
737-800	VT-JBU	Grounded	Hyderabad	9W 9691 BOM-HYD	March 7, 2019
737-800	VT-JBV	Grounded	Kochi	BDQ-COK	March 11, 2019
737-800	VT-JBW	Grounded	Mumbai	9W 438 IXE-BOM	March 11, 2019	Back on April 2, 2019 9W 615 BOM-CCU. AOG on April 12, 2019 after operating 9W 3502 ATQ-BOM
737-800	VT-JBX	Grounded	Mumbai	9W 3502 ATQ-BOM	March 29, 2019
737-800	VT-JFA	Redelivered	Mumbai	9W 9721 DEL-BOM	March 22, 2019	Redelivery March 26, 2019
737-800	VT-JFB	Grounded	Hyderabad	BOM-HYD	March 24, 2019
737-800	VT-JFC	Grounded	Vadodara	9W 9724 BOM-BDQ	March 23, 2019
737-800	VT-JFD	Grounded	Hyderabad	9W 9747 BOM-HYD	March 13, 2019
737-800	VT-JFE	Grounded	Mumbai	9W 3502 ATQ-BOM	April 10, 2019
737-800	VT-JFF	Grounded	Hyderabad	9W 9712 DEL-HYD	February 6, 2019
737-800	VT-JFG	Grounded	Delhi	9W 263 KTM-DEL	March 19, 2019
737-800	VT-JFH	Grounded	Delhi	9W 9674 DEL-DEL	February 22, 2019
737-800	VT-JFJ	Grounded	Nagpur	9W 865 BOM-NAG	February 26, 2019	9W 866 NAG-BOM Cancelled
737-800	VT-JFK	Grounded	Kochi	BLR-COK	February 27, 2019	DEL-CNN on March 26, 2019
737-800	VT-JFL	Grounded	Delhi	9W 606 GAU-DEL	January 28, 2019
737-800	VT-JFM	Grounded	Delhi	9W 361 BOM-DEL	February 26, 2019
737-800	VT-JFN	Grounded	Bhopal	9W 9725 DEL-BHO	March 23, 2019	Back on March 28, 2019 9W 835 DEL-DED till March 31, 2019
737-800	VT-JFP	Grounded	Bengaluru	9W 9706 COK-BLR	March 15, 2019
737-800	VT-JFQ	Grounded	Mumbai	9W 304 DEL-BOM	February 26, 2019
737-800	VT-JFR	Grounded	Bhopal	BOM-BHO	March 23, 2019
737-800	VT-JFS	Grounded	Kannur	9W 9709 BOM-CNN	March 18, 2019
737-800	VT-JFT	Grounded	Kannur	BOM-CNN	March 18, 2019
737-800	VT-JFW	Grounded	Hyderabad	BOM-HYD	March 3, 2019
737-800	VT-JFX	Grounded	Mumbai	9W 610 CCU-BOM	April 10, 2019
737-800	VT-JFY	Grounded	Hyderabad	BOM-HYD	March 3, 2019
737-800	VT-JFZ	Grounded	Hyderabad	BOM-HYD	March 2, 2019
737-800	VT-JGA	Grounded	Mumbai	9W 424 CJB-BOM	March 12, 2019
737-800	VT-JGE	Grounded	Mumbai	9W 460 MAA-BOM	December 12, 2018
737-800	VT-JGF	Redelivered	Tbilisi	9W 9072 BOM-TBS	March 15, 2019	Redelivery
737-800	VT-JGG	Grounded	Mumbai	9W 9683 DEL-BOM	February 28, 2019	BOM-CNN on March 20, 2019
737-800	VT-JGJ	Grounded	Mumbai	S2 417 JAI-BOM	February 3, 2019
737-800	VT-JGK	Redelivered	Mumbai	9W 452 HYD-BOM	March 19, 2019	Redelivery on March 30 9W 9076
737-800	VT-JGP	Grounded	Mumbai	9W 376 DEL-BOM	March 20, 2019	BOM-BHO on March 28, 2019
737-800	VT-JGQ	Grounded	Bengaluru	9W 9702 HYD-BOM	March 21, 2019	BOM-BDQ March 28, 2019
737-800	VT-JGR	Grounded	Bengaluru	9W 495 BOM-BLR	March 11, 2019
737-800	VT-JGS	Grounded	Mumbai	9W 1304 DEL-BOM	March 13, 2019
737-800	VT-JGT	Grounded	Mumbai	9W 3502 ATQ-BOM	March 25, 2019
737-800	VT-JGU	Grounded	Mumbai	9W 422 BLR-BOM	April 2, 2019
737-800	VT-JGV	Grounded	Hyderabad	9W 457 BOM-HYD	January 2, 2019
737-800	VT-JGW	Grounded	Mumbai	9W 3502 ATQ-BOM	April 11, 2019
737-800	VT-JLE	Grounded	Bengaluru	DEL-BLR	March 30, 2019
737-800	VT-JLF	Grounded	Hyderabad	BOM-HYD	March 30, 2019
737-800	VT-JTA	Grounded	Delhi	9W 63 BKK-DEL	March 1, 2019
737-800	VT-JTB	Grounded	Benguluru	9W 775 PNQ-BLR	February 7, 2019
737-800	VT-JTC	Grounded	Hyderabad	BOM-HYD	March 21, 2019
737-800	VT-JTD	Redelivered	Delhi	9W 361 BOM-DEL	January 31, 2019	Redelivery (March 7, 2019)
737-800	VT-JTE	Grounded	Kochi	9W 9681 DEL-COK	February 28, 2019
737-800	VT-JTF	Redelivered	Delhi	9W 310 BOM-DEL	February 28, 2019	Redelivery March 28, 2019
737-800	VT-JTG	Redelivered	Delhi	9W 339 BOM-DEL	March 1, 2019	Redelivery March 28, 2019
737-800	VT-JTH	Grounded	Delhi	BOM-DEL	March 31, 2019
737-800	VT-JTK	Grounded	BLR	BLR-DEL	March 31, 2019
737-800	VT-JTL	Grounded	Delhi	9W 9684 GAU-DEL	February 28, 2019
737-800	VT-JTM	Grounded	Mumbai	9W 492 MAA-BOM	February 27, 2019
737-800	VT-JTN	Grounded	Delhi	9W 9742 BOM-DEL	March 31, 2019
737-800	VT-SJI	Grounded	Mumbai	S2 3502 ATQ-BOM	April 17, 2019
737-800	VT-SJJ	Grounded	Mumbai	S2 312 DEL-BOM	March 18, 2019
737-900	VT-JGC	Grounded	Hyderabad	BOM-HYD	March 13, 2019
737-900	VT-JGD	Grounded	Delhi	9W 740 MAA-DEL	November 22, 2018
737-900ER	VT-JBY	Grounded	Kochi	9W 9705 BOM-COK	March 14, 2019
737-900ER	VT-JBZ	Grounded	Kochi	9W 9707 BOM-COK	March 17, 2019
737-900ER	VT-JLH	Grounded	Kochi	BOM-COK	March 9, 2019
737-900ER	VT-JLJ	Grounded	Bengaluru	BOM-BLR	March 13, 2019
737MAX	VT-JXA	Grounded	Hyderabad	9W 9730 BLR-HYD	February 27, 2019
737MAX	VT-JXB	Grounded	Hyderabad	9W 9730 BLR-HYD	February 25, 2019
737MAX	VT-JXC	Grounded	Mumbai	9W 628 CCU-BOM	January 23, 2019
737MAX	VT-JXD	Grounded	Kolkata	9W 629 BOM-CCU	February 25, 2019
737MAX	VT-JXE	Grounded	Kochi	BOM-COK	February 28, 2019
777-300ER	VT-JEH	Grounded	Delhi	9W 17 SIN-DEL	March 17, 2019	Back on March 27, 2019 9W 122 DEL-LHR. AOG since April 12, 2019 after 9W 233 AMS-DEL
777-300ER	VT-JEK	Grounded	Mumbai	9W 117 LHR-BOM	March 30, 2019
777-300ER	VT-JEM	Grounded	Delhi	9W 121 LHR-DEL	April 2, 2019	Operated DEL-LHR-BOM on April 11, 2019
777-300ER	VT-JEQ	Grounded	Mumbai	9W 231 AMS-BOM	April 11, 2019
777-300ER	VT-JES	Grounded	Mumbai	9W 123 CDG-BOM	April 11, 2019
777-300ER	VT-JET	Grounded	Delhi	9W 361 BOM-DEL	April 12, 2019
777-300ER	VT-JEU	Grounded	Delhi	9W 121 LHR-DEL	April 11, 2019
777-300ER	VT-JEV	Grounded	Mumbai	9W 119 LHR-BOM	April 11, 2019
777-300ER	VT-JEW	Grounded/Seized	Amsterdam	9W 232 BOM-AMS	April 10, 2019	On the ground at Delhi from April 2 to 6, 2019
777-300ER	VT-JEX	Grounded	Chennai	9W 9705 BOM-MAA	September 29, 2018
A330-200	VT-JWP	Grounded	Delhi	9W 233 AMS-DEL	April 11, 2019
A330-200	VT-JWQ	Grounded/Redelivered	Mumbai	9W 362 DEL-BOM	March 21, 2019	9W 9081 BOM-MAD on April 11, 2019
A330-200	VT-JWV	Grounded	Mumbai	9W 129 MAN-BOM	November 17, 2018
A330-200	VT-JWW	Grounded	Mumbai	9W 9745 DEL-BOM	April 4, 2019
A330-300	VT-JWR	Grounded	Delhi	BOM-DEL	March 23, 2019	9W 9748 DEL-BOM April 6, 2019
A330-300	VT-JWS	Grounded	Bengaluru	9W 235 AMS-BLR	April 10, 2019	De-registration requested. BLR-BOM on April 13, 2019
A330-300	VT-JWT	Grounded	Chennai	9W 845 DEL-MAA	April 10, 2019	De-registration requested. MAA-BOM on April 13, 2019
A330-300	VT-JWU	Grounded	Delhi	9W 233 AMS-DEL	March 22, 2019
ATR 72-500	VT-JCJ	Grounded	Chennai	9W 875 BLR-MAA	December 11, 2018
ATR 72-500	VT-JCK	Grounded	Delhi	9W 689 JDH-DEL	January 1, 2019
ATR 72-500	VT-JCL	Grounded	Delhi	9W 758 IDR-DEL	April 17, 2019
ATR 72-500	VT-JCM	Grounded	Delhi	9W 756 JAI-DEL	April 17, 2019
ATR 72-500	VT-JCN	Grounded	Indore	9W 794 IDR-DEL	December 6, 2019
ATR 72-500	VT-JCP	Grounded	Chennai	9W 871 BLR-MAA	January 3, 2019
ATR 72-500	VT-JCQ	Grounded	Delhi	9W 826 DED-DEL	April 17, 2019
ATR 72-500	VT-JCR	Grounded	Delhi	9W 756 JAI-DEL	April 15, 2019
ATR 72-500	VT-JCS	Grounded	Delhi	9W 928 BHO-DEL	April 17, 2019
ATR 72-500	VT-JCT	Grounded	Chennai	9W 9696 MAA-DEL	March 10, 2019
ATR 72-500	VT-JCU	Grounded	Chennai	9W 867 BLR-MAA	February 8, 2019
ATR 72-500	VT-JCV	Grounded	Delhi	9W 646 IXC-DEL	April 17, 2019
ATR 72-500	VT-JCW	Grounded	Bhopal	9W 893 DEL-BHO	April 17, 2019
ATR 72-500	VT-JDC	Grounded	Chennai	9W 9717 BLR-MAA	February 10, 2019
ATR 72-500	VT-JDD	Grounded	Delhi	9W 9638 BOM-DEL	November 15, 2018
ATR 72-600	VT-JCX	Grounded	Mumbai	9W 9654 DEL-BOM	December 26, 2018

The funds will be infused this week and will be used to pay salaries of pilots, dues of lessors and other creditors such as airports and lounges. It was also mentioned somewhere that grounded aircraft will be back in the air soon. But will it be easy?

Perhaps not. As you all know, we have been keeping track of routes that are cancelled following the groundings of aircraft for quite some time now.

• Jet Airways cancels all flights to Abu Dhabi
• Jet Airways Manchester flight being withdrawn
• Jet Airways shuts down Hong Kong route and many other routes

Jet Airways has reopened booking for most of these routes. but not immediately. Let’s have a look at what the international operations for Jet Airways seem to look like in April/May 2019.

Widebody routes

Jet Airways operates a fleet of 18 widebody aircraft; 10 777-300ER, 4 A330-200 and 4 A330-300 aircraft. If you look at the list, 2 777-300ER, 2 A330-200 and 1 A330-300 aircraft are currently grounded. As of March 26, 2019, Jet Airways widebody routes for May 2019 are:

Boeing 777-300ER routes

• Daily Mumbai – Amsterdam
• Daily Mumbai – Hong Kong
• 3X daily Mumbai – London
• Daily Amsterdam – Toronto
• Daily Delhi – London
• 5x weekly Delhi – Amsterdam
• 1x weekly Delhi – Hong Kong

This schedule requires 8 Boeing 777-300ER aircraft and is an ideal usage of the fleet.

A330 routes

• Daily Mumbai – Paris
• 5x weekly Chennai – Paris
• Daily Bengaluru – Amsterdam
• 2x weekly Delhi – Amsterdam
• 6x weekly Delhi – Hong Kong

This schedule requires around 4 A330 aircraft ideally. The routes that are missing in the summer schedule, operated in the winter schedule, are Mumbai – Manchester, Mumbai – Singapore and Mumbai – Doha. I couldn’t find any domestic routes being filed for the A330 operations, so we don’t know what Jet Airways has in store for the freed up A330s.

The Mumbai – Manchester route which was cancelled, isn’t bookable yet, but Jet Airways still holds the slots at Manchester airport for the 2019 Summer schedule. They have mentioned that they are cancelling the route due to lack of aircraft.

Narrowbody international routes

Jet Airways cancelled a lot of narrowbody international routes especially out of Delhi which was affected the most. Jet Airways has opened up reservations for almost all routes cancelled in the past few weeks out of Mumbai. Well, we knew that would be the first step in order to protect those precious slots at Mumbai.

Jet Airways has clearly given preference to Mumbai routes as not all other international routes are bookable yet. Ongoing through Jet Airways, I could find that the following cancelled routes are not bookable even in May/June 2019,

• Daily Pune-Singapore
• 9x weekly Delhi – Abu Dhabi
• 2x Daily Bengaluru – Singapore

Jet Airways has opened up bookings for most of the cancelled routes from April 26, 2019. The following routes (some were cancelled altogether) will see the reduced frequency in April/May 2019,

• 3x daily Delhi – Singapore (currently 1x daily) will continue to operate 1x daily
• 5x daily Delhi – Dubai (currently 0 daily) is down to 1x daily
• 12x weekly Mumbai – Abu Dhabi (currently 0 daily) is down to 5x weekly
• 3x daily Delhi – Bangkok (currently 0 daily) is down to 2x daily in May and is further reduced to 1x daily in June
• 7x daily Mumbai – Dubai (currently operating 1x daily) will be 5x daily in May and will be back to 7x daily in June

Some routes aren’t bookable in June 2019 like 2x daily Delhi – Doha, daily Delhi – Riyadh, single daily Delhi – Dubai and so-on.

The schedule is dynamic for now. Jet Airways may come out with a concrete plan to restore flight operations in a few days as funds start coming in.

Why not return to full-scale operations?

We already knew that Jet Airways will be redelivering a few aircraft as their leases come to an end. A few aircraft are already handed back, if you look at the table, and some more will go away perhaps.

IndiGo is facing a pilot shortage. According to reports, about 100 pilots have already moved from Jet Airways to IndiGo. As per Ajay, some A330 pilots he knew of have also shifted to IndiGo. Maybe that is the reason for reduced A330 operations. Since many A330s are on a lease, don’t know what Jet Airways has planned to do with them.

Around 260 pilots also interviewed with SpiceJet according to reports. SpiceJet and lessors were in talks to take over grounded Jet Airways aircraft. We do not know if there is a deal on this yet.SpiceJet as it is may have an abundance of crew due to the grounding of 13 737 Max aircraft. Even Vistara is hiring both Airbus and Boeing commanders at the moment.

 

Jet Airways was also flying some aircraft on the Minimum Equipment List (MEL). Not all aircraft were grounded due to lessors. Some were also grounded as maintenance was due. Jet Airways has a pay by the hour (PBTH) contract for maintenance. A part of the funds will be used for carrying out maintenance on these aircraft.

VT-JEX, a 777-300ER grounded at Chennai airport since September 2018, was used as a spares pool so that other 777s in Jet Airways fleet could be kept in flying condition. VT-JWV, an A330-200 is grounded at Mumbai Airport since November 2018. Both the aircraft will take a long time and will require sufficient funds so that they can be brought to flying condition.

Bottomline

It won’t be easy for Jet Airways to return back to the normal schedule on a quick footing. Jet Airways has a lot on its plate. One of the priority items then is getting those aircraft back in the air so that flight schedules are back to normal at the earliest.

We definitely won’t see Jet Airways operating all routes from the winter schedule at the earliest, as there may perhaps be a network reduction, following redelivery of some aircraft and pilots shifting to other airlines. We don’t know what the route reduction will be in case of domestic operations yet, but are ploughing through the available data to make a picture of what may be in store.

What are your thoughts on Jet Airways road ahead?