Valujet Remains Grounded For Now

Fri., Sept. 13, 1996

Compiled From Wire Services

ValuJet Inc. won’t receive approval to fly this week, again delaying the discount airline’s plans to resume service, a U.S. Transportation Department official said.

ValuJet, which was grounded June 18 by federal regulators, expected to receive the regulatory green light to start limited service by today, President Lewis Jordan said in an interview earlier this week.

A DOT official involved with ValuJet’s request to be recertified as a passenger carrier said the airline will have to wait until next week before it learns whether it can start booking passengers and return to the skies.

ValuJet said it hadn’t received any information from the DOT.

“Every day it drags along, it costs ValuJet millions of dollars more,” said Barbara Beyer of aviation consulting firm AvMark Inc.

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