DGCA sent notices to Kingfisher, IndiGo and SpiceJet
NEW DELHI: Over the last six days ailing Kingfisher Airlines cancelled more than 160 flights. Now the Airlines have been asked by aviation regulator DGCA to give details of their plan to reconfigure its fleet to prevent a large-scale flight disruption.
Kingfisher, which has been cancelling over 30 flights each day since Monday, had yesterday cancelled 40 services across its network.
Maintaining that it has received some “interim replies” from liquor baron Vijay Mallya-owned carrier, sources in the Directorate General of Civil Aviation said it was awaiting more details as it has been found that the airline was not operating flights as per the approved winter schedule.
Mallya said of twitter, “Every government has gone out of the way to support airlines and connectivity. In India airlines are overtaxed and overcharged. Wonder why?”
In another tweet, he said, “Is it Kingfisher’s duty 2 fly on loss making routes when state governments tax heavily? Or should v be financially prudent n fly profitably”.
DGCA, which issued a show-cause notice to Kingfisher in this regard, has also sent similar notices to IndiGo and SpiceJet and asked them to submit their cancellation details.
E K Bharat Bhushan Chief of DGCA said, “When the schedule for winter was approved, it was with immediate effect. So we took a stock of the position and on that basis, we asked them to explain.”
