SpiceJet to Lease Hi-Fly Airbus A330NEO for repatriating operations!

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Indian low cost airline SpiceJet announced on 27th July about its plans to lease a Hi-Fly Airbus A330NEO for repatriating Indian nationals stranded in Europe.

According to a tweet released by the airline, the charter flight will be SpiceJet’s first long-haul flight and will depart from Amsterdam Airport Schiphol (AMS) on August 1.

The flight will be a wet lease charter which means that the Portuguese operator's crew will fly it on behalf of SpiceJet.
The flight is supposed to depart from Amsterdam at 14:30 hours and arrive at Bengaluru at 03:00 hours the following day. It will then fly on to Hyderabad, arriving at 05:30 hours.

A spokesperson for the airline said:
“This A330-900 can do India-US non-stop. We plan to utilize it initially for charters to wherever the demand is for.
Later it may be used for scheduled flights under the travel bubbles India is forming with some countries.
That is an option. For now, it will be used for charters that can be booked by any organization or NGO.”

Although given the current circumstances, SpiceJet is operating for bring back stranded Indian nationals, it is intended to offer low-cost flights to Europe and North America in the future.

Nevertheless, SpiceJet has been granted persmission to fly to the United States and the United Kingdom last week and looks forward to perform repatriating operations starting 1st August.