New Delhi: Aviation regulator DGCA today sent a show-cause notice to Kingfisher Airlines as it cancelled at least 80 flights over the past three days saying it was taking some of its aircraft off flight schedules to add business class seats on them.
"We have issued a notice to them under Rule 140(A) of Aircraft Rules," DGCA chief E K Bharat Bhushan told PTI here.
In the notice issued today, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) asked the airline to show cause why it had not taken the regulator's prior approval to curtail its flight schedules as is required by this rule.
Under it, an airline has to obtain DGCA's concurrence before starting a new route or discontinuing a flight at least a week before taking such a step.
The DGCA also asked the Vijay Mallya-owned carrier on what steps it has taken so far to take care of the passengers booked in the flights cancelled in terms of returning their airfares, accommodating them in their alternate flights or providing them alternate modes of transportation.
09/11/11 PTI/Economic Times
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