Q400 Aircraft

India's aviation regulator, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation, has ordered the budget carrier to inspect all its operational Q400 aircraft engines within one week and send all oil samples to Canada every 15 days

A senior SpiceJet executive has asked pilots flying its Q400 aircraft to follow "some work ethics", telling them in an email that if they don't get a salary for a month they will automatically give up the "trivial" issues that are taking priority over flight operations.

Cracking the whip against violations, aviation watchdog DGCA on Wednesday suspended licences of two more SpiceJet pilots after their aircraft overshot the runway at Surat airport, a senior official said.

SpiceJet has expanded its fleet of planes by inducting five 90-seater Q400 aircraft taking its Bombardier fleet size to 32.

US investigators on Sunday said they found the flight data recorder of the Horizon Air plane stolen by a troubled Seattle airport worker amid plane wreckage on a sparsely populated island in Washington state.

The hardest part of stealing a commercial plane from an international airport was already over for Richard Russell. Russell, a ground services worker for Horizon Air, was permitted to get very close to passenger aircraft. And part of his job was to drive the tractor that backed the aircraft into position for takeoff.

A plane suddenly took off from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport today morning before the passengers could board and without taking permission to depart, creating a major scare, as US Air Force jets scrambled to intercept the twin turboprop aircraft.

SpiceJet will serve on all the routes with the Bombardier Q400 aircraft except for the Chennai-Guwahati route, where it will deploy its Boeing 737 aircraft.

A Flybe aircraft was forced to make an emergency landing in Northern Ireland on Friday after its nose gear failed.

Carriers like SpiceJet, IndiGo, GoAir and Jet Airways have plans or firmed up orders for over 800 new planes, including a good number of smaller aircraft.

The letter of intent is for 25 Q400 turboprops and purchase rights for an additional 25 aircraft. These are 86-seater planes.

SpiceJet, which has about 20 Q400 78-seater aircraft, is Bombardier's biggest client in the country, and is assisting the airline in reducing costs.

Till now the first five rows of SpiceJet's Boeing 737s and the front row on Bombardier Q400s aircraft were especially configured with additional six-inch legroom for SpiceMax segement.

SpiceJet has this week received the last three of the 15 Q400 NextGen turboprop aircraft it had ordered, taking the no-frill carrier's fleet size to 51.

India's aviation regulator, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation, has ordered the budget carrier to inspect all its operational Q400 aircraft engines within one week and send all oil samples to Canada every 15 days

A senior SpiceJet executive has asked pilots flying its Q400 aircraft to follow "some work ethics", telling them in an email that if they don't get a salary for a month they will automatically give up the "trivial" issues that are taking priority over flight operations.

Cracking the whip against violations, aviation watchdog DGCA on Wednesday suspended licences of two more SpiceJet pilots after their aircraft overshot the runway at Surat airport, a senior official said.

SpiceJet has expanded its fleet of planes by inducting five 90-seater Q400 aircraft taking its Bombardier fleet size to 32.

US investigators on Sunday said they found the flight data recorder of the Horizon Air plane stolen by a troubled Seattle airport worker amid plane wreckage on a sparsely populated island in Washington state.

The hardest part of stealing a commercial plane from an international airport was already over for Richard Russell. Russell, a ground services worker for Horizon Air, was permitted to get very close to passenger aircraft. And part of his job was to drive the tractor that backed the aircraft into position for takeoff.

A plane suddenly took off from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport today morning before the passengers could board and without taking permission to depart, creating a major scare, as US Air Force jets scrambled to intercept the twin turboprop aircraft.

SpiceJet will serve on all the routes with the Bombardier Q400 aircraft except for the Chennai-Guwahati route, where it will deploy its Boeing 737 aircraft.

A Flybe aircraft was forced to make an emergency landing in Northern Ireland on Friday after its nose gear failed.

Carriers like SpiceJet, IndiGo, GoAir and Jet Airways have plans or firmed up orders for over 800 new planes, including a good number of smaller aircraft.

The letter of intent is for 25 Q400 turboprops and purchase rights for an additional 25 aircraft. These are 86-seater planes.

SpiceJet, which has about 20 Q400 78-seater aircraft, is Bombardier's biggest client in the country, and is assisting the airline in reducing costs.

Till now the first five rows of SpiceJet's Boeing 737s and the front row on Bombardier Q400s aircraft were especially configured with additional six-inch legroom for SpiceMax segement.

SpiceJet has this week received the last three of the 15 Q400 NextGen turboprop aircraft it had ordered, taking the no-frill carrier's fleet size to 51.