New Delhi: It's eviction time for Kingfisher Airlines (KFA). The Airports Authority of India (AAI) has written to the grounded airline, asking it to vacate all office space it occupies at its various airports across the country. The authority has also asked the airline's management to vacate the two hangars-one each at Kolkata and Chennai- immediately. In response to the AAI eviction letter, Kingfisher CEO Sanjay Agarwal is learnt to have sought time to meet AAI top brass next week.
"Kingfisher has dues of over Rs 300 crore and they have shown no sign whatsoever of even trying to clear a part of it. In such a situation, we cannot allow them to continue occupying precious commercial space at airports and we have asked them to vacate the same. The only place which we cannot evict is the apron area where their aircraft are parked," said a senior official. At present, almost 30 aircraft leased to KFA are parked across the country which airports, tax authorities and banks are not allowing to be repossessed by the lessors.
07/03/13 Saurabh Sinha/Times of India
