Kingfisher cancels more flights as pilots resign
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Troubled Indian airline, Kingfisher, cancelled a further thirty flights on Tuesday in the wake of fifty pilots filing resignation papers.
Thirty-five A320 pilots left the company on February 14, jumping ship to rival airline IndiGo, while fifteen more commanders quit over the weekend.
Between 300 and 350 pilots have left the airline in the past six months.
Despite offering passengers a full refund Kingfisher grounded thirty flights this Tuesday; the majority outbound from Mumbai.
¡°The prime reason for the current disruption in our flight schedules is the sudden attachment of our bank accounts by the IT department,¡± a spokesperson for the company said.
The DGCA launched an inquiry into the sudden flight abandonments on Monday and plan to meet with Kingfisher CEO, Sanjay Aggarwal tomorrow to discuss the airline¡¯s future.
¡°Everybody knows that Kingfisher has financial problems. The government is not going to ask banks to bail out any private company. Kingfisher has presented a business plan to banks, let us see,¡± Civil Aviation Minister, Ajit Singh said.
It is estimated that the airline has cancelled more than 50 percent of its flights over the past weekend.
The distraught airline is currently only operating sixteen of its total fleet of sixty four aircraft.
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Source = e-Travel Blackboard: P.T