Showing posts with label Jet Airways. Show all posts
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014

Jet Airways chairman Naresh Goyal says will restructure debt, talking to bankers

The airline, which has not reported an annual profit since 2007, set out a three-year restructuring plan in May centred on cutting costs and boosting efficiency. (Reuters)

Reuters | New Delhi | July 23, 2014 1:36 pm

The airline, which has not reported an annual profit since 2007, set out a three-year restructuring plan in May centred on cutting costs and boosting efficiency. (Reuters)


Jet Airways’ Chairman Naresh Goyal said the country’s No. 2 airline by market share will look at selling planes and restructuring its debts as it tries to find ways to end the losses that have plagued it for years.
Jet Airways is looking at a lot of consolidation (of our fleet),” Naresh Goyal said at a press event in India’s capital on Wednesday.
Naresh Goyal said the carrier is talking to its bankers without giving details of the discussions.
Like all but one of India’s major airlines, Jet is losing money fast, beset by high costs, low fares and cut-throat competition in its domestic market.
The airline, which has not reported an annual profit since 2007, set out a three-year restructuring plan in May centred on cutting costs and boosting efficiency. As the carrier struggles to turn around its fortunes, it also named Cramer Ball as its fourth chief executive within the space of a year, pending regulatory approvals.

Friday, November 9, 2012

Jet Airways looking to sell and lease back aircrafts to repay $600mn debt



Good returns ;November 7, 2012, 10:13 [IST]

Debt laden, Jet Airways has said that it will retire USD 600-million debt by this fiscal end by way of sale and lease back of some its aircraft.
Ravi Shankar G, CFO Jet Airways said, "We have been steadily repaying our debt, both working capital and working capital loans. By March, we expect our debt to come down to USD 1.96 billion from the current USD 2.3 billion and we would have repaid over USD 600 million of our debt this fiscal."
The total debt on the company's balance sheet stood at Rs 12,000 crore by the end of the September quarter against USD 2.4 billion in the June quarter, Ravi Shankar said.
The airline is also looking at leasing some of its A330's which is expected to fetch a rental of USD 1 million per aircraft per year. Besides, airline is looking to further lease A777 whose lease with Thai Airways is set to expire next year.
Earlier in the previous quarter, Jet Airways raised USD 42 million by way of outright sales, and sale and lease back of seven Boeing 737s, which helped it reduce debt as well as working capital loans.