No route dispersal breather for UB-Deccan

New Delhi: The government has turned down the UB Group’s request to consider Air Deccan and Kingfisher Airlines as single entity while reviewing the route dispersal guideline (RDG) obligations on commercially non-viable routes.
The civil aviation ministry has clarified that it would take both the airlines as single entity while reviewing the RDG requirements only when the two are merged completely.
“We have to do nothing with the shareholding pattern of an airline. UB Group, the owner of Kingfisher Airlines, may be holding majority stake in Air Deccan but still Air Deccan is a separate entity from Kingfisher. And hence, we would consider the ASKM (average seat kilometre) obligations of both the airlines separately till the two are completely merged,” a civil aviation ministry official said.
18/12/07 Nirbhay Kumar/Economic Times

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Categories: Kingfisher Dec 2007, Simplifly Deccan Dec 2007