DGCA de-registers Kingfisher aircraft
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The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has reregistered 15 aircraft of Kingfisher Airlines.
This move is to enable global leasing companies to take them back on grounds of default on their lease rentals by the grounded carrier, reported the PTI. The airport operators, particularly the Airports Authority of India (AAI) had seized several aircraft of the carrier and decided not to release them till Kingfisher Airlines clear their dues.
“Following the decision, aircraft lessor International Lease Finance Corporation said it had successfully removed one of six Kingfisher aircraft – an Airbus A321, stranded in India. Kingfisher has ten planes of its own and another 15 leased ones which are yet to be deregistered,” said V P Aggarwal, Chairman of AAI.