The Mahapatras, who were supposed to invest nearly half the targeted Rs 2,250 crore, haven’t done so yet, forcing the Ajay Singh-led airline to seek more time to complete the exercise.
Low-cost airline SpiceJet’s crucial fundraising exercise, announced back in December, has been hit by a delay with its lead investor getting cold feet, according to two senior aviation executives tracking the development. They said that the lead investor, the Mahapatra family, may yet come back to the table, but for now is having second thoughts about putting in about Rs 1,100 crore in the airline.
That is about half the Rs 2,250 crore that the Ajay Singh-led airline was hoping to raise. The hesitation of the Mahapatras—the husband-wife duo of Harihara and Preeti Mahapatra—is a setback for SpiceJet. It needed …
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