NEW YORK/BENGALURU, May 11 (Reuters) – Pratt & Whitney on Thursday opposed Go Airlines (India) Ltd’s push to implement an arbitration ruling in an engine dispute, with the U.S. firm arguing in a Delaware court docket that the Indian airline’s chapter submitting has raised dangers for it.

The Indian airline, broadly generally known as Go First, approached the Delaware court docket to implement an arbitration order in Singapore in opposition to Pratt & Whitney, which it blames for its monetary troubles by arguing the U.S. agency failed to produce engines on time.

The 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 because of engine points.

Opposing enforcement of the arbitration award in Delaware, International Aero Engines (IAE), which counts Pratt as a shareholder, argued dynamics of the dispute have modified and the engine maker faces extra dangers after Go First was granted bankruptcy protection by an Indian tribunal on Wednesday.

“Go First’s recent bankruptcy filing has radically changed the field of play in terms of Go First’s need for relief and IAE’s risk,” its submitting acknowledged, asking the court docket to placed on maintain or dimiss the airline’s request.

“The risks for IAE, which were high to begin with, have increased significantly since Go First’s bankruptcy.”

Go First didn’t reply to a request for remark.

While the Indian airline has blamed Pratt for its monetary troubles and subsequent chapter submitting, the engine maker argued that declare is unfounded and the airline’s years-long failure to pay for the upkeep and lease prices led to the mandatory suspension of providers.

Go First was not a “victim in need of urgent legal redress” however in actuality an “insolvent airline that materially breached its contractual obligations,” it stated within the submitting.

Reporting by Jahnavi Nidumolu and Mike Scarcella in Bengaluru and New York; Additional reporting by Aditya Kalra; Editing by Stephen Coates

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