| Ministry withdraws International Bilateral Traffic Rights and Domestic Slots of Kingfisher Airlines |
| Minister
of Civil Aviation, Shri Ajit Singh has decided to withdraw all
International Bilateral Traffic Rights allocated to Kingfisher Airlines
with immediate effect. Under the said rights, the Kingfisher Airlines
were allowed to fly the sky of 8 countries namely Bangladesh (14
services per week), Hong Kong (14 services per week), Nepal (7 services
per week), Singapore (7 services per week), SriLanka (14 services per
week + 21 services per week from unlimited 18 destinations), Thailand
(21 services per week), UAE Dubai (21 services per week) and UK (7
services per week each from Mumbai, Delhi and Bangalore). These traffic
rights were allocated to Kingfisher Airlines between the year 2008 and
2011. These international traffic rights have been withdrawn from Kingfisher Airlines on account of non-utilisation by the airlines.The Civil Aviation Minister has decided to make these International traffic rights available to other carriers for use. This would give additional availability of approximately 25,000 seats per week for use by other Indian carriers to these 8 countries, some of which are much in demand by these carriers. Similarly it has also been decided to withdraw the domestic slots which were allocated to Kingfisher Airlines at different airports for domestic flights. Airports Authority of India has been directed to make these slots available to other domestic carriers as per their demand. |
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