JetLite
| JetLite | |
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| IATA code : | S2 |
| ICAO code : | JLL |
| Call sign : | LITE JET |
| Founding: | 1991 |
| Operation stopped: | 2012 |
| Seat: |
New Delhi , India
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| Home airport : | Indira Gandhi International Airport |
| Company form: | Limited |
| Fleet size: | 19th |
| Aims: | national and continental |
| JetLite ceased operations in 2012. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation. | |
JetLite , originally Sahara Airlines , then Air Sahara , was an Indian airline based in New Delhi . It was a subsidiary of Jet Airways .
history
The airline was founded on September 20, 1991 as Sahara Airlines . Flight operations began on December 3, 1993 with two Boeing 737-200s . First of all, the north of India was served before the flight operations were expanded to all of India. On October 2, 2000, the airline was renamed Air Sahara , on March 22, 2004 the first international flight from Chennai to Colombo was carried out.
In 2006, the airline was acquired by Jet Airways for $ 350 million. In April 2007 the company was renamed again, this time to JetLite. Jet Airways wanted to position the airline as a low-cost airline after it was renamed . On March 25, 2012, JetLite was integrated into the sister company JetKonnect and dissolved as part of a restructuring process .
aims
JetLite operated mostly inland, where all metropolitan areas were connected.
fleet
In February 2012, the JetLite fleet consisted of 19 aircraft:
Incidents
- On March 8, 1994, a Sahara Airlines Boeing 737-200 ( aircraft registration VT-SIA ) carried out a training flight at New Delhi Airport . Five touch-and-go landings took place without any special incidents, after the sixth the aircraft suddenly leaned sharply to the left and crashed onto the apron of the international terminal. The burning wreckage of the machine slid against an Ilyushin Il-86 of Aeroflot , which then also caught fire and was destroyed. All four crew members of the Boeing died in the accident, four other people in the Ilyushin and one person on the apron died. The cause was the actuation of the rudder by a trainee pilot in the wrong direction during a simulated engine failure (see also flight accident at Delhi Airport in 1994 ) .
See also
Web links
- Official website (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ handelsblatt.com: Competition for India's Heaven , June 11, 2007
- ↑ timesofindia.indiatimes.com - Jet Airways discontinues JetLite, merges with Konnect , March 19, 2012
- ↑ ch-aviation.ch - JetLite fleet (English), accessed on February 23, 2012
- ↑ Accident report Boeing 737-200 VT-SIA , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on April 4, 2020.
