Mumbai: Kingfisher Airlines (KFA) has cut down its operation by 50% at Mumbai airport this summer. According to the new schedule, the airline will be operating 24 flights out of Mumbai, instead of 50 flights in the summer schedule.
Across India, the airline will operate 120 daily flights instead of over 300 flights it operated last year. Kingfisher will use 20 aircraft out of its fleet of 64, to operate the summer schedule. On Wednesday, the airline issued a statement stating that it has begun the 2012 summer schedule operations. However, the current schedule is part of a "holding plan" till re-capitalization and return to full utilization of the aircraft fleet. The airline said that it would try to maintain the schedule.
The statement comes a day after Kingfisher stopped operations from Mumbai and Delhi to Lucknow and Patna. "The move was expected as the airline has been actively cutting down on operations to tier II cities. It had already stopped operating direct flights to many other popular routes like Mumbai-Jaipur, Mumbai-Hyderabad, Mumbai-Trivandrum etc," officials said. "This is all part of an operational trim-down that the airline is planning.
Since passenger loads have decreased tremendously, the airline is finding it unfeasible to operate on these sectors. Even flights between metros are half-empty," a senior airport official said.
28/03/12 Chinmayi Shalya/Times of India
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