Kingfisher Aircraft

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  High Court Paves Way For Fresh Auction Of Vijay Mallya's Plane

  The Bombay High Court today allowed a company, which had claimed to have won the auction for the fugitive industrialist Vijay Mallya's luxury jet for Rs 27.39 crore, to withdraw its bid paving the way for a fresh auction.

• Airbus upbeat on India demand despite airline woes

  Airbus is sticking to upbeat forecasts for aircraft demand in India in the face of financial woes creeping across its airline sector, the European plane maker's sales chief said on Monday.

• Kingfisher grounded: Will try to clear salaries within 'next few days', says CEO Sanjay Aggarwal

  The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), which is the regulatory body for airlines, has told top executives of Kingfisher Airlines that it will be allowed to operate only after ensuring its employees return to work. 270 of its engineers have been on strike since Sunday, triggering its latest crisis. After the meeting with the DGCA, Sanjay ...

• Aviation regulator directs Kingfisher to come up with revised schedule

  Kingfisher Airlines has been given time till tomorrow to come up with a revised schedule for its operating aircraft. Out of Kingfisher's 64 aircraft, 28 are operational. The airline's CEO Sanjay Agarwal met the aviation regulator today, the Director General of Civil Aviation or DGCA, to explain the large-scale disruption of operations and the reaso...

• Kingfisher cancels 30 flights, says accounts need to be unfrozen

  Kingfisher cancelled 30 flights today, most of them out of Mumbai, but said it is now offering passengers a full refund. After a weekend when nearly 50 per cent of its flights were cancelled, gone were the lame excuses about aircraft being grounded by bird hits.

• Kingfisher passenger opens emergency door, delays flight

  A passenger of a Kingfisher Lucknow-Delhi flight opened the emergency exit door of the aircraft just before it was to take off from here last night, delaying its departure by nearly two hours. The man, who was not identified, was de-planed and handed over by the Kingfisher staff to the authorities soon after he opened the latch on the emergency doo...

• Passenger boards aircraft with month-old boarding pass

  In a security breach, a passenger was allowed to board an aircraft of a private airline at the IGI airport here on the basis of a month-old boarding pass.The incident took place on February 10, when a passenger went past the security check, manned by CISF personnel, at Terminal-3 of the IGI airport and was allowed to board a Kolkata-bound Kingfishe...

• Dogs' day out at Bangalore airport

  There's a new problem dogging the Bengaluru International Airport (BIA) that threatens air passengers' safety. Stray dogs on the airport's runway are putting the flights and the passengers at a grave risk, threatening an encore of the mishap on HAL airport runway on March 28, 2008 night when a Kingfisher ATR aircraft taking off for Hyderabad hit a ...

• Kingfisher Chennai reports technical snag

  A Chennai-bound Kingfisher flight with 177 passengers on board was delayed by over four hours from the city airport on Monday due to a technical snag in the aircraft.     The flight which was originally scheduled to take- off at 06:25 am, took off around 11 am on Monday morning after the airline engineers inspected the aircraft ...

• Manic Monday at Mumbai airport

  A kingfisher ATR 72-500 aircraft going to Jamnagar with 30 passengers was given clearance to take off by ATC around 1:30 pm, when it was ready to take off, it was asked to abort.

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  Bomb-on-plane was to expose security lapse?

  A former CISF guard arrested for allegedly placing a crude bomb in a Kingfisher aircraft in Thiruvananthapuram recently has told the police that his act was meant to expose "security lapses" at the airport.

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  Kingfisher bomb probe: Prime suspect in custody

  In a breakthrough in the case of planting of crude explosive material in the cargo-hold of a Kingfisher aircraft here last week, police said on Sunday that it has taken into custody the prime suspect in the case.

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  3 arrested for planting bomb on Kingfisher plane

  The Bangalore airport police arrested three employees of Kingfisher Airlines on charges of planting a bomb on a Kingfisher aircraft on Sunday.

• 'I know who planted the bomb on Kingfisher flight'

  A mysterious caller has been nagging the harried airport police and claiming to have information of the people who planted a crude bomb in the Kingfisher aircraft on Sunday.

• Scare at Delhi airport after plane goes off radar

  The ATC sources said that turbo-propped ATR aircraft, during its 40-minute flight, was not in communication with the ATC for about seven minutes.