NEW DELHI, May 25 (Reuters) – Pratt & Whitney has no engines presently accessible for India’s Go First airline, which additionally has no rights over them, the counsel for the U.S. agency informed a Delaware court docket on Thursday as the 2 firms engaged in a raging dispute over the provides.

The Indian airline has approached the Delaware court to implement an arbitration order it gained in Singapore in opposition to Pratt & Whitney, which it blames for its monetary troubles and argues the U.S. agency failed to produce engines on time. Pratt (RTX.N) says these claims are with out advantage.

Go First has been granted chapter safety in India with a court-appointed administrator making an attempt to revive the airline. This has additionally sparked a bitter tussle with many of Go First’s lessors as they’ve terminated their lease agreements and try to repossess the planes.

During a court docket listening to on Thursday, which Reuters accessed through a court-assigned teleconferencing system, a lawyer for Pratt argued Go First no extra has a proper over the engines after termination of leases.

“There are no engines available to be sent to Go First … these leases have been terminated and they (engines) cannot be sent because Go First has no right to them,” stated the Pratt & Whitney counsel.

Go First counsel argued that place was incorrect, saying the chapter course of in India gives a freeze on any repossession of planes by any lessor, and so it continues to have a proper over them and the engines.

The Indian airline’s counsel added the engines have been essential to its revival.

The Singapore arbitrator on March 30 had ordered Pratt to help Go First and provide serviceable spare engines to the airline, which has stated it grounded half of its 54 Airbus (AIR.PA) A320neo planes resulting from engine points.

Pratt argues the arbitration order is just not enforceable.

Reporting by Aditya Kalra and Arpan Chaturvedi; Editing by David Gregorio

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