Sunday, April 07, 2013

Air India eyes Kingfisher's self check-in kiosks at Mumbai airport


Mumbai: National carrier Air India has shown interest in acquiring some of the self check-in kiosks of Kingfisher AirlinesBSE -0.62 % at the city's domestic airport, weeks after private carrier Jet sought to take over some of the international and domestic routes of KFABSE -0.62 %, say airport sources.
"Since KingfisherBSE -0.62 % Airlines is no longer operating, Air India has evinced interest in acquiring a few of its kiosks," sources at Mumbai airport told PTI.
Air India is negotiating for taking over of six of the 18 kiosks lying unused due to the grounding of Vijay Mallya's airline in October last year.
Air India and Kingfisher had been equally using the 36 self check-in kiosks at the Terminal A. "Of these 18 vacant kiosks, Air India is negotiating with the airport operator to take over six," they said, adding that other airlines are also looking at a few of them.
07/04/13 PTI/Economic Times
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