Go Air has filed a draft purple herring prospectus for a proportion sale to elevate Rs 3,six hundred crore, because it rebrands to turn out to be an “ultra-low-cost” airline.

The Wadia institution airline will use the proceeds to satisfy debt obligations, pay oil organizations and for substitute of letter of credit score to plane lessors for hire condo fee and destiny upkeep of plane.

ICICI Securities, Citi Bank, Morgan Stanley will deal with the proportion sale process. Known as GoAir because its inception in 2005, the airline modified its call to Go First on Thursday.

The airline, India’s biggest airline via way of means of marketplace proportion, is elevating budget plans and rebranding withinside the midst of a 2nd wave of Covid-19 that has decimated journey demand. Airlines have grounded plane, reduce flights and deferred bills to trip out of the crisis.

According to files filed with marketplace regulator SEBI, the Wadia own circle of relatives and their Go Investments organisation maintain one hundred in step with cent stake withinside the airline. At least 22.fifty six in step with centof Go Investment is pledged with a lender’s consortium.

In the 9 month finishing December, the airline published a lack of Rs 470 crore on general earnings of Rs 1438 crore. The airline in FY 2020 published a lack of Rs 1270 crore on an earnings of Rs 7258 crore, in step with consolidated economic statements that shape part of the IPO filing.

Go Air could be the 0.33 Indian airline to listing in inventory exchanges. IndiGo and SpiceJet are indexed. Jet Airways and Kingfisher Airlines have been indexed earlier than shutting down.

In 2015, IndiGo raised Rs 3,008 crore from public listing. Go Air presently holds a bit greater than 8 percentage marketplace proportion of the home marketplace.

India suspended air journey for 2 months for a countrywide lockdown ultimate 12 months and resumed it on May 24 with caps on capacity.