Kingfisher to give up licences for overseas flights under brand

New Delhi: Vijay Mallya’s Kingfisher airline has to give up its licences after its merger with Air Deccan is completed in order to use the budget carrier’s entitlement to launch overseas flights under the Kingfisher brand. The merged entity would require IATA membership, besides clearing a host of other formalities.
A recent meeting at the civil aviation ministry revealed that several new obstacles have come up in the way of Kingfisher Airlines’ plan to fly on foreign routes using Air Deccan’s entitlement. It is not as simple as it looked initially, government sources said. The civil aviation ministry has said the merger of Kingfisher with Air Deccan should be completed before the merged entity gets in-principle approval for flying overseas. After the merger, the licence of Kingfisher would be cancelled and the merged entity would operate on the licence of Air Deccan. The merged entity will use the Kingfisher brand but run on Air Deccan’s entitlements.
In view of the new complications that have come up, the launch of overseas flights by the UB Group airline is likely to be delayed.
28/02/08 Nirbhay Kumar/Economic Times

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Categories: Deccan Feb 2008, Foreign Feb 2008, Kingfisher Feb 2008, New Feb 2008