Foreign fly: Kingfisher plans charter service

New Delhi: Vijay Mallya-owned Kingfisher Airlines has found a way to utilize the wide-bodied aircraft A-330s and A-340s, which will join its fleet by month-end, to be deployed on international routes. The airline is talking to large travel houses and corporates for chartering the Airbus A-330s and A-340s for foreign jaunts.
The airline had earlier planned to use the three A-330s, on domestic routes like Bangalore-Delhi sector, before the Deccan-Kingfisher combine becomes eligible to fly abroad from August 26. Now this option, said sources, is unlikely to be exercised.
Apron side of domestic terminals at airports in India have parking bays for medium size planes, like A-320 or Boeing-737.
Using an A-330 on domestic flights would mean parking this plane on international terminal side that has bays for bigger planes. "Then both passengers and baggage would have to be transported over the long distance between international and domestic side, which does not seem to be an ideal option for travellers," said an official.
19/05/08 Saurabh Sinha/Times of India

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