London-based AdiGro Group, which own AdiGro Aviation, has offered to restart the operations of grounded Jet Airways by July 1. In the offer it mentions that the company will restart functioning with eight to nine thousand employees and 70 aircraft.

A couple of Jet Airways' grounded planes will again touch the sky from next week; a news report said that SpiceJet will temporarily take over 30-40 Jet's Boeing 737s while Air India will take five of the wide body Boeing 777s.

Writing a letter to the Director, Operations of Air India, the IPG, referring to information about the airline planning to hire B-777 rated Captains and co-pilots on contract basis, said it will be a brutal waste of money when the company is facing a tough financial situation.

The officials held a meeting after civil aviation minister Suresh Prabhu asked secretary of the department Pradeep Singh Kharola to review issues concerning Jet Airways, news agency PTI reported.

The airline is now waiting for the infusion of the Rs 1,500 crore committed by lenders for paying aircraft lessors as well as for clearing part of salary dues.

The airlines, which was once flying 128 air planes, has asked it Boeing 737 pilots that they can take “long break/sabbatical” without pay up to September. The move comes after Jet sent all its expensive expat pilots on furloughs, or long leaves, without pay last week.

Jet Airways is standing on the verge to collapse at any moment and the staff is now pleading for its unpaid salaries. The airlines is under a massive debt of a billion dollars and has failed to pay salaries to its staff.

Dismissing the recent reports of a likely merger with Tata SIA Airlines, Jet Airways on Thursday said the news is "purely speculative" and that there were no such discussion in the company's Board.