Kinfisher Airlines

[Towerman]

A worrying article...

Kingfisher a goner, says analyst who tore into RIL, RCom - Money - DNA

[merlinxx]

F1 slippery VJ, has he paid his fuel bills ?

[RoyHudd]

Kingfisher are on the way out.....not the brewery thankfully....

[akerosid]

Will be sad to see it go; a very good airline for passenger service, apparently.

Bad news for Airbus too; it was supposed to have been India's first/only A380 operator.

Wonder if they could survive as a domestic carrier only; would axing their international services save them. They incorporated a successful domestic low-cost operation, Air Deccan, a few years back, which I think (for a while anyway) was being operated as an independent unit.

It is, of course, a crowded marketplace now.

JetPhotos.Net Photo » VT-VJP (CN: 946) Kingfisher Airlines Airbus A330-223 by John Fitzpatrick

[Wannabe Flyer]

They incorporated a successful domestic low-cost operation, Air Deccan, a few years back,

You sure it was successful? IMHO this was one of the root causes for the downward spiral as that airline was bleeding cash and got KF nothing in return except the ability to fly international one year earlier which they have not capitalized on anyways.

They are very shabbily run and cater to the whims and fancy of an individual without taking a realistic approach on how to handle this business and grow it in a structured manner. Cancelled flights and stripped down planes (for parts) is common on this carrier. Most time the IFE does not work (non payment), sometimes you get a packed sandwich lunch instead of the meal offered (non payment to caterer) and stories abound of other such "trimmings" including shabby interiors and the like.

I for one have stopped flying them as money is needed to keep such assets in the air and they do not have any of their own.