Kingfisher Red

• Chennai
• Bengaluru

Kingfisher Red (formerly Air Deccan and Simplifly Deccan ) was an Indian low-cost airline based in Mumbai and a subsidiary of Kingfisher Airlines. 2012, it was integrated into this.

History

First years as Air Deccan

Kingfisher Red was founded in 2003 under the name Air Deccan the first low cost airline of India and started their flights in August of the same year with regular scheduled flights from Bangalore to Mangalore and Hubli. Almost an accident would have occurred during the first flight of the Company. On the morning of 24 September 2003, an ATR 42 engine caught fire shortly before the start, but that could be quickly cleared by the fire department. Many prominent guests, such as the Prime Minister of Andhra Pradesh, Chandrababu Naidu, and the Minister for Civil Aviation, Rajiv Pratap Rudy were on board. The cause of the fire was apparently condensation in the engines; already in the weeks before the maiden flight was the technical state of the first six ATR 42 been criticized .. In September, the airline opened a hub in Chennai. Air Deccan was the first private Indian airline, the Airbus aircraft recorded in their fleet, as one of five leased A320s in July 2004. Waited these Lufthansa Technik; this was regulated end of September 2006.

Air Deccan laid from the beginning a very high rate of growth before. Despite the maiden flight, which nearly ended in disaster because of a fire on board (see to Un-/Zwischenfälle ), you constantly increased the number of destinations, number of passengers and fleet. The growing Indian economy and the increasing number of middle -income of the Society of expansion were also positive.

Takeover by Kingfisher

In July 2007, Air Deccan announced that parent company of Kingfisher Airlines, the United Brewery Group, a proportion (26%) bought the company. For this reason, was introduced in October 2007, a new corporate identity that is similar to the Kingfisher brand image. At the same time it was decided to change the name in Simplifly Deccan. Simplifly Deccan to act exclusively as a future low cost airline.

In the summer of 2008, the company was renamed again and operates since then under the present name, Kingfisher Red and the call signs and codes of the parent company Kingfisher Airlines.

In September 2011 it was announced that Kingfisher Red to be resolved, as the parent company wants to remove from the segment of low cost airlines. This finally happened until mid-2012.

Fleet

Kingfisher Red last operation itself no more airplanes, the routes were flown by aircraft from the fleet of the parent company Kingfisher Airlines.

Trivia

• The mascot of the airline, the " Common Man " is a creation of the Indian author and cartoonist RK Laxman. For almost fifty years, the Common Man for the hopes, ambitions, difficulties and perhaps weaknesses of people from India; Thus, it represents the average inhabitant of India. Because of its high brand awareness through daily cartoon series in the Times of India, Air Deccan chose the Common Man as a mascot, because you want to just use this target group with flights.