Kingfisher Airlines
Bengaluru International Airport
Kingfisher Airlines was an Indian airline based in Bangalore and based on the local Bengaluru International Airport. She was owned by the Indian company United Breweries Group Multi. She shared the name and logo some elements with the beer brand Kingfisher of the parent company. On 20 October 2012, the license of the airline of the Indian aviation authority has been withdrawn.
History
The airline, which was founded in 2004 by Vijay Mallya, chairman of United Brewery Group, and commenced flight operations on 9 May 2005, flew in their heyday at 65 national and seven international destinations. Along with the acquisition of its competitor Air Deccan expansion was announced, were planned after the flights to neighboring countries, Europe and North America.
Kingfisher Airlines was up to 31 December 2007, an official partner of the Formula 1 teams Panasonic Toyota Racing. Since the 2008 season, Kingfisher is the sponsor of the Force India Formula One team in the Vijay Mallya is also involved.
In February 2010 it was announced that Kingfisher aspired to join the oneworld airline alliance, this should be done first in the course of 2011, but was then set to the 10th February 2012.
At Kingfisher Airlines also included the low cost airline Kingfisher Red, which was, however, resolved in the context of a conceptual reorientation.
Crisis from 2011
In August 2011 it was announced that Kingfisher was not able to pay their employees in July 2011, further payments to suppliers and service are open. In November it was announced that 130 pilots had left the company in the short term at his own request, which led to massive flight cancellations. Likewise, there should be more financial demands of many service providers, including first aircraft would be reclaimed by the lessors because of overdue installments. In December 2011, also had 15 aircraft will be provisionally shut down, as planned maintenance can not be paid.
On February 3, 2012, scheduled for February 10, join the oneworld airline alliance has been suspended indefinitely due to the uncertain financial situation. In March, British Airways suspended the codeshare agreement with Kingfisher, at the same time an Airbus A330 was to reduce the cost of long-haul operations unscheduled returned to the lessor. In addition, about two dozen were retired more machines.
On October 2, 2012 put Kingfisher because of unrest in the workforce with regard to months of unpaid wages all flights provisionally.
On 20 October 2012, the airline was revoked the license. This happened after Kingfisher the government presented a plan on how it should proceed with the airline. In this, however, there was nothing about how the operations should be safely and reliably continue. Instead, it has asked for more time to license revocation, but this was rejected by the government.
End of December 2012 it was announced that Vijay Mallya, owner of Kingfisher, but now wants to invest enough money in the airline to accommodate flight operations can. Initially intended to be used a fleet of seven engines. However, prior to the start of operation still high debt paid off and the license be recovered. The Indian authorities gave known, however, that the license of the company had expired.
Destinations
Kingfisher served before the air services are a very dense network of numerous targets within India, including Hyderabad, Raipur, Ahmedabad, Pune and Udaipur. The flights to all international destinations, including, for example, Dubai and Bangkok or London were suspended in April 2012 due to the very tight financial situation of the company until further notice.
Fleet
As of May 2012, the fleet of Kingfisher Airlines consisted of 25 aircraft. As of April 2013 no more aircraft to the Company is registered.
Trivia
- Kingfisher is the English name for kingfishers, in company Crest such a bird is shown.
- Until early 2012, Kingfisher Airlines was loud Skytrax with a rating of five out of five stars ( subjective) of the seven best airlines in the world.