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Go First owner has no plans to exit airline: CEO

3 May 2023, 12:00 am
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People wait to claim refunds after their flights were cancelled, from the Go First airline ticketing counter at the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport in Mumbai, India, May 3, 2023. REUTERS/Francis Mascarenhas

The day after India’s Go Airlines filed for bankruptcy, Reuters exclusively reported that its owner does not intend to exit the cash-strapped airline. In its bankruptcy filing, India’s third-largest airline, which recently re-branded as Go First, claimed its failure followed a refusal by Pratt & Whitney to abide by an arbitration order to release spare leased engines that would have allowed it to return to full operations.