New Delhi: Airports Authority of India (AAI) has filed two lawsuits against Vijay-Mallya promoted Kingfisher Airlines to recover Rs 300 crore in unpaid airport usage fees.
V P Agrawal, chairman, AAI, said, “We have filed a criminal lawsuit against Kingfisher Airlines as cheques of Rs 117 crore given by the company has been returned by banks due to insufficient funds. AAI has also filed a civil lawsuit in Mumbai to recover remaining dues of around Rs 183 crore from the airline.”
The lawsuits filed for recovering dues of Rs 300 crore from Kingfisher Airlines is exclusive of payments guarantees given by banks.
Kingfisher, which has dues of over Rs 10,000 crore to lenders, suppliers, aircraft leasing companies, employees, airport operators, has been facing several lawsuits from its creditors.
14/05/13 Sharmistha Mukherjee/Business Standard
