Runway falls short for Kingfisher

There does not seem to be any end to Kingfisher Airlines’ woes. Last week, a section of its staff members again went on strike, protesting against non-payment of salaries from February this year. On the first two days of the current strike, the airline cancelled about 50 of the 200 flights that it would have operated on both days combined.
Worse, the airline also wrote to the authorities saying that seven ATR and three Airbus aircraft from its fleet would now be non-operational. This means the airline is not operating 10 of the 16 aircraft in its fleet. Authorities claimed that the airline had not told them when it would start operating these aircraft.
Little wonder then that currently the airline is finding it difficult to operate even 100 flights a day. Result: it is now carrying only about 9,000 passengers.
12/08/12 Ashwini Phadnis/Business Line

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