The plane will likely be inducted underneath damp and moist lease preparations, the airline stated. Underneath a moist lease, the lessor provides the plane together with flight crew and upkeep help whereas the airline offers its personal cabin crew. In a moist lease, the lessor operates the plane with its personal full crew, insurance coverage and upkeep cowl.
Additionally learn: SpiceJet gets more time as NCLT defers lessors’ bankruptcy cases
Among the many 5 Airbus plane, the induction will embrace the A321 variant, which affords a better seating capability than SpiceJet’s current narrow-body fleet. It will enable the airline to deploy extra seats on high-demand routes throughout the peak journey interval.
With the brand new plane becoming a member of the fleet, SpiceJet is concentrating on 200 every day flights for the upcoming holidays and the winter schedule, the airline stated. The induction is predicted to strengthen capability throughout each the airline’s home and worldwide community.
SpiceJet stated the extra capability will assist carry better stability to the market and ease stress on airfares during times of peak demand. The airline added that the expanded fleet will help operations by way of the winter and into the next peak summer time journey season.
The newest induction follows a equally sized growth a yr in the past. For the winter of 2025-26, SpiceJet had added 20 plane, a mixture of damp-leased Boeing 737s, an Airbus A340 wide-body and reactivated grounded jets, between October and November 2025.That spherical of inductions helped the airline greater than double its operational fleet and triple its obtainable seat kilometres (ASKM), taking its every day flight depend to a peak of 250, up from 125 within the previous summer time schedule.
Additionally learn: CCPA imposes Rs 1 lakh penalty on SpiceJet for using dark patterns on booking platform
The airline has additionally been working to overtake engines from its grounded plane, together with CFM LEAP-1B engines for its Boeing 737 MAX fleet and turboprop engines for its Q400s, having dispatched near 19 engines to upkeep, restore and overhaul amenities worldwide.
