The Kingfisher Airlines’ CEO, Mr Sanjay Aggarwal, hopes to restore normalcy in operations in the next 5-7 days.
Speaking to reporters after a two-hour meeting with the Directorate-General of Civil Aviation, Mr Aggarwal today said that the airline will provide all the relevant information sought by the regulator.
The meeting was called in the wake of the airline suddenly cancelling a number of its scheduled flights. This is not allowed as per rules.
“We had a good meeting with the DGCA. In the next 24 hours, we will provide all the information being sought and in the next 5-7 days, we hope to have a complete normalcy in operations,’’ Mr Aggarwal said.
The DGCA chief, Mr E.K. Bharat Bhushan, said that the regulator was not looking at cancelling the operating licence of Kingfisher Airlines. He pointed that doing so would result in fares mvoving upwards as the airline was a major operator.
The DGCA said that the airline currently has about 28 operational aircraft and should be in a position to operate about 175 flights a day. "Also, they have more than adequate flying crew."
Mr Bhushan added that there has been no increase in fares as the domestic fares were within the fare buckets that had been set by the regulator.