New Delhi: Troubled Kingfisher airlines, whose flying licence was suspended by the DGCA, said on Saturday night it has stopped taking booking of tickets till it resumes operations. "We are now immediately suspending all forward bookings till such time we resume operations," Kingfisher spokesperson said in a statement, adding it's "our endeavour to re-start operations at the earliest and we assure you we are working towards achieving this". The airline...
10:03 PM, Oct 20, 2012
New Delhi: It could be the beginning of the end for Kingfisher Airlines. The crisis-hit company, under lockout since September end, had his licence suspended on Saturday by the aviation watchdog, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA). This means an immediate halt on bookings, followed by the staff intensifying their protests for their dues. The DGCA on Saturday said that the suspension will stay till it is convinced that...
09:00 PM, Oct 20, 2012
Mumbai: Kingfisher lenders, including SBI, on Saturday expressed concerns over the airline losing its licence to fly, but said recovery of loans through sale of its assets is the last option. "... we are concerned as we have no control on these developments. We were prepared for all these. The last thing we bankers want is a complete shut-down of the airline, as we want the airline to resume operations...
07:46 PM, Oct 20, 2012
New Delhi: Flying licence of Kingfisher Airlines has been suspended till further orders, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation has said. "KFA's licence has been suspended till it comes with a revival plan," it said. The move comes after the Vijay Mallya-owned airlines failed to respond to DGCA's show cause notice. The airline has been struggling to pay its bills. It is seven months behind on salary payments and its...
02:34 PM, Oct 20, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: The Directorate of Civil Aviation (DGCA) officials on Saturday reached Trivandrum to look into the probe into the 'hijack' episode at the airport here. The Kerala Police has already began their probe into the matter. Director General of Police KS Balasubramanian formed a team led by Assistant Commissioner of Police KS Vimal after receiving a complaint from the commander of the Air India Express flight W Rupali that she...
12:03 PM, Oct 20, 2012
New Delhi: All eyes are on Kingfisher Airlines which faces suspension of its license on Saturday after it failed to reply to any of the questions posed in the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) show cause notice. Instead, the airline has asked for time to reply in person to the notice. The DGCA is mulling what steps should be taken next with a team of legal experts. A decision...
07:34 AM, Oct 20, 2012
New Delhi: Suspension of licence stares in the face of crisis-ridden Kingfisher Airline as it extended its lockout till October 23 and submitted a reply to aviation regulator DGCA's show-cause notice on the matter. Reacting to the airline's reply, official sources said the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) was consulting legal experts on what action - suspension or cancellation of flying licence - could be taken against Kingfisher for...
08:46 PM, Oct 19, 2012
New Delhi: Aviation regulator DGCA on Friday asked for recordings of the black box of the Air India Express plane after a high drama unfolded at Thiruvananthapuram when some agitated passengers entered the cockpit, leading its pilot to press the hijack alarm. The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has asked the pilots to appear before it to provide their version of the incident and directed the airline to submit...
08:39 PM, Oct 19, 2012
New Delhi: Cash-strapped Kingfisher Airlines on Friday extended its partial lockout till October 23. Sources, however, say that operations may resume on November 6, "subject to the review and approval" of the airline company's "resumption plan by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA)". The airline company said that it had submitted its reply to the DGCA's showcause notice and that it was now waiting for its response. If the...
04:48 PM, Oct 19, 2012
New Delhi: It seems it is end of the road for Vijay Mallya's Kingfisher Airlines? Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh on Wednesday said that the airline's license could be cancelled. Meanwhile, there seems no end to the lockout as talks with employees failed again on Wednesday. In fact the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has blocked out the debt-ridden airlines' winter schedule. No flights have been operating since October...
07:17 AM, Oct 18, 2012
New Delhi: With no end in sight to the 16-day impasse over a lockout and strike by its workers, Kingfisher Airlines management will be meeting with their representatives on Wednesday in a last-ditch effort to convince them to return to work. The meeting, scheduled in Mumbai, is likely to be attended by top officials of the parent company, UB Group, apart from the airline top-brass. It comes three days before...
08:42 AM, Oct 17, 2012
New Delhi: Beleaguered Kingfisher airlines, which has declared a lockout till October 20, will hold a meeting with the employees' representatives on Monday in Mumbai to resolve the deadlock over non-payment of salary dues. Airline CEO Sanjay Aggarwal has written a letter calling employees for the meeting, airline sources said. Employees have been on a strike demanding payment of salaries of seven months and have been insisting that dues be...
05:05 PM, Oct 14, 2012
New Delhi: The Kingfisher Airlines has decided to extend its lockout till October 20, expressing hope that the carrier will resume operations from October 21. This comes even as aviation regulator, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has said that there has been no communication from KFA since it was served a show-cause notice. In wake of the extension of the lockout of the carrier, the DGCA has said...
07:39 PM, Oct 12, 2012
New Delhi: The Kingfisher Airlines lockout which has been on since October 1 may be extended further with employees not willing to join back work till their dues are cleared. Online bookings which were earlier available from October 13 onwards, have now been extended to October 20. On Tuesday, Kingfisher Airlines CEO Sanjay Aggaarwal had sent a letter to all employees urging them to join back work. "Unless we can...
07:19 AM, Oct 12, 2012
New Delhi: Cash-strapped Kingfisher Airlines' CEO Sanjay Aggarwal has written to the airline employees asking them to help the airline back to normalcy. "We need you to help us to have any chance of getting back to normalcy. Hope we will able to present viable plan to the DGCA and we hope to resume operations on October 13." Sanjay's letter says that the airline management has been working relentlessly to...
11:26 AM, Oct 10, 2012
New Delhi: Aviation regulator DGCA has asked Kingfisher Airlines to stop selling tickets following reports that it had started accepting bookings from Friday, a day after it proposes to end its lockout. "We have sent a notice to the airline to stop bookings," a top official of the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) said here. Soon after Kingfisher extended its lockout till October 12, travel agents said ticket sale...
06:13 PM, Oct 09, 2012
New Delhi: Kingfisher Airlines' woes continue as the airline's employees will be marching from India Gate to Jantar Mantar on Tuesday as there seems no end to the deadlock with the management. The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) is also expected to send Chairman Vijay Mallya a notice in connection with the suicide of an employees wife. The Kingfisher staffer's wife committed suicide on Thursday citing financial strain. She had...
09:06 AM, Oct 09, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: Air Kerala, the state government's airline, would be launched on April 14, 2013, to coincide with Vishu, new year's day in the Malayalam calendar, says Chief Minister Oommen Chandy. "It (Air Kerala) will be airborne on April 14. The only question is whether the first flight will be an international or domestic one," said Chandy. He added, "Next month, we will be applying to the Director General of Civil...
11:38 AM, Oct 08, 2012
Hyderabad: Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh on Sunday reiterated that the crisis-ridden Kingfisher Airlines would have to satisfy aviation regulator DGCA on all aspects including safety and issue of non-payment of salaries to its employees in reply to the show cause notice. "DGCA has served a show-cause notice to Kingfisher to reply within 15-days... They (Kingfisher) have to come out with concrete plans on (how they are) arranging the finance...
01:50 AM, Oct 08, 2012
New Delhi: With DGCA serving a show-cause notice to beleaguered Kingfisher Airlines asking why its license should not be taken away, industry experts on Saturday said it could have been issued four months ago when the then aviation regulator chief had made a similar recommendation to avoid the present situation. "The government should have taken forward the recommendations made by then DGCA chief EK Bharat Bhushan who had recommended issuance...
10:04 AM, Oct 07, 2012
