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Kingfisher Airlines
Founded 2004
Hubs Bangalore International Airport
Fleet size 22 (incl. 75 in order)
Destinations 20
Parent company UB Group
Headquarters Bangalore, India
Key people Dr. Vijay Mallya,CMD
Website: http://www.flykingfisher.com
Kingfisher Airlines is an airline based in Bangalore, India. Services started on 9 May 2005, following the lease of 4 Airbus A320 aircraft. It initially operates only on domestic routes. The airline is owned by United Beverages Group under the leadership of Vijay Mallya (which also owns the popular Indian beer of the same name) . The airline promises to suit the needs of air travellers and to provide reasonable air fares.
Destinations
As of December 2006, Kingfisher flies to the following airports in India:
Agartala (Agartala Airport)
Ahmedabad (Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport)
Bangalore (HAL Bangalore International Airport)
Bhubaneswar (Biju Patnaik Airport)
Chennai (Chennai International Airport)
Coimbatore (Coimbatore Airport)
Delhi (Indira Gandhi International Airport)
Dibrugarh (Dibrugarh Airport)
Guwahati (Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport)
Goa (Dabolim Airport)
Hyderabad (Begumpet Airport)
Jaipur (Jaipur Airport)
Jammu (Jammu Airport)
Kochi (Cochin International Airport)
Kolkata (Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport)
Mangalore (Mangalore International Airport)
Mumbai (Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport)
Nagpur (Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar International Airport)
Pune (Pune Airport)
Srinagar (Srinagar Airport)
Udaipur (Udaipur Airport)
Varanasi (Varanasi Airport)
Vijayawada (Vijayawada Airport)
Visakhapatnam (Vishakhapatnam Airport)
Fleet
Kingfisher's new Airbus A380 aircraftAs of January 2007 the Kingfisher Airlines fleet includes:
3 Airbus A319-131 (plus 1 on order)
1 Airbus A319-100CJ
10 Airbus A320-232 (plus 33 on order)
5 Airbus A321-232
6 ATR 72-500 (plus 24 on order)
On order: 5 Airbus A330-200
On order: 5 Airbus A340-500
On order: 5 Airbus A350-800
On order: 5 Airbus A380-800
The airline was the first in India to initially and to continue to operate with all new aircraft.
On 18 February 2005 Kingfisher Airlines signed a contract with Airbus for three Airbus A319 aircraft, adding to the 10 Airbus A320 aircraft (plus twenty options) ordered in January 2005. The first of the A319s will be delivered in December 2005, complementing the A320s on routes to smaller cities in India.
On June 15, 2005 it became the first (and only) Indian airline to order the Airbus A380. It placed orders for 5 A380s, 5 Airbus A350-800 aircraft and 5 Airbus A330-200 aircraft in a deal valued at over $3 billion. Delivery of the A330s is due to start in late 2007, followed by the A380s in 2010 and the A350s in 2012.
On November 20, 2005 at the Dubai Air Show, Kingfisher Airlines announced that it would be buying 20 ATR 72-500s (plus 15 options). The deal is estimated to be worth $500 million dollars with the deliveries starting from March 2006. The last of the 20 planes would be handed over to Kingfisher Airlines by 2008. The first aircraft from that order was delivered to the airlines on March 31, 2006.
On November 21, 2005 at the same air show, Kingfisher Airlines placed an order to acquire 30 more A320s in a deal estimated to be worth $2 billion. Engine making joint venture International Aero Engines will supply the engines for the planes. Deliveries for the planes are likely to start from 2008.
On January 13, 2006 an Airbus A319 of Kingfisher Airlines was the first aircraft in that class to land on the short older runway at Mangalore airport.
On the April 24, 2006, Kingfisher signed a contract for five Airbus A340-500 HGWs.The airline plans to use this for its Bangalore-San Francisco and Mumbai-New York route. Delivery is expected for 2008.
India’s Kingfisher Airlines has sold two Airbus A321s to Pegasus Aviation Finance in a sale and lease-back deal.
US-based Pegasus says in a statement that the two new-build A321-200s that are being prepared for delivery to Kingfisher will be the first of the stretched A320-family variant in India. Kingfisher already leases one A320 from Pegasus.
Source : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingfisher_Airlines
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