Mallya Still Eyeing Air Deccan, Asks Gopinath to Stay Cool

Finding absolutely nothing wrong with his being interested in Air Deccan, Kingfisher Airlines Chairman Vijay Mallya on Tuesday wondered why the publicly held low-cost carrier's chief G R Gopinath was over-reacting.
"Gopi has completely over-reacted," was Mallya's response when reporters asked about Gopinath's advice to him to "restrict himself to running his own airline rather than talking about Air Deccan".
Asked whether he was still interested, the flamboyant industrialist quipped: "Yes, I am interested. What is wrong with that?"
"It is a public company, I don't know what has prompted him to give this very excitable reaction," Mallya wondered.
Mallya, whose UB Group is the promoter of the full service-true value carrier Kingfisher Airlines, said he would continue to focus on products and service quality and seek rights to fly overseas.
09/05/07 PTI/Daijiworld.com

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