New flight schedule for Kingfisher Airlines New flight schedule for Kingfisher Airlines
NEW DELHI (PTI): On Wednesday Vijay Mallya owned Kingfisher Airlines submitted new flight schedule to DGCA according to which the beleaguered airlines will operate 28 of 64 aircraft for now.
On Tuesday the Directorate General of Civil Aviation had given a 24-hr deadline to create a realistic flight schedule ruling out any immediate punitive action to avert further difficulties to air travelers even as the carrier scrapped 40 more flights.
“The airlines will have to file a new schedule instead of a truncated one in the next 24 hours,” DGCA chief EK Bharat Bhushan told reporters after the regulator quizzed Kingfisher CEO Sanjay Aggarwal and top officials on how they plan to get the crisis-ridden airlines back on track.
The cash-strapped carrier, facing the wrath of Income Tax authorities which have frozen its bank accounts, was operating only 28 of its 64 planes, leading to large-scale disruption of its schedule for the fifth consecutive day.
At least 40 flights were cancelled across its national network on Tuesday.
“To be on the safer side, we have decided to go for safety surveillance of all of their operating aircraft,” said Bhushan according to PTI.
