India has scrapped international flying rights and domestic slots of grounded Kingfisher Airlines (KFA) Ltd, the aviation ministry said on Monday.
"The Airports Authority of India has been directed to make these slots available to other domestic carriers as per their demand," the ministry said in a statement.
The international traffic rights are being withdrawn due to "non-utilization", and will be made available to other carriers, the ministry said. These traffic rights were allocated to Kingfisher Airlines between the year 2008 and 2011.
The cancellation of rights to fly overseas will "give additional availability of approximately 25,000 seats per week for use by other Indian carriers to these eight countries, some of which are much in demand by these carriers," the ministry said.
Kingfisher Airlines, controlled by liquor baron Vijay Mallya and once India’s second biggest carrier, has not flown since October last year after operations were halted due to a cash crunch. The airline also failed to submit a revival plan to the Director General of Civil Aviation and had its flying licence suspended on December 31.
Kingfisher Airlines flew to eight countries including Bangladesh, Hong Kong, Nepal, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Dubai in the United Arab Emirates and the UK.
http://www.indiatourismreview.com/news/govt-scraps-kfas-intl-and-domestic-flying-rights
"The Airports Authority of India has been directed to make these slots available to other domestic carriers as per their demand," the ministry said in a statement.
The international traffic rights are being withdrawn due to "non-utilization", and will be made available to other carriers, the ministry said. These traffic rights were allocated to Kingfisher Airlines between the year 2008 and 2011.
The cancellation of rights to fly overseas will "give additional availability of approximately 25,000 seats per week for use by other Indian carriers to these eight countries, some of which are much in demand by these carriers," the ministry said.
Kingfisher Airlines, controlled by liquor baron Vijay Mallya and once India’s second biggest carrier, has not flown since October last year after operations were halted due to a cash crunch. The airline also failed to submit a revival plan to the Director General of Civil Aviation and had its flying licence suspended on December 31.
Kingfisher Airlines flew to eight countries including Bangladesh, Hong Kong, Nepal, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Dubai in the United Arab Emirates and the UK.
http://www.indiatourismreview.com/news/govt-scraps-kfas-intl-and-domestic-flying-rights
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