Kingfisher commences London flights
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India’s Kingfisher Airlines commenced its first overseas services, taking off from its Bengaluru hub at 8:40 this morning (local time), en route to London Heathrow. Bloomberg has reported that the carrier will start flying to Southeast Asia and the Middle East later this month.
“Air traffic in and out of India is growing at a robust pace,” Kingfisher’s CEO and billionaire founder, Vijay Mallya, told the news agency in a telephone interview on Monday. “Where we find we have excess capacity in the domestic network we will pull those planes and use them to fly to neighbouring countries.”
Kingfisher will also start direct services from Bangalore to San Francisco in November, becoming the first carrier to link the two cities non-stop. Kingfisher is also the only Indian carrier to have signed-up to buy Airbus’ A380 superjumbo, with delivery planned for 2012.
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