Kingfisher submits fresh schedule to DGCA

Kingfisher Airlines,which is now operating much lesser number of flights than in November,would not operate direct flights to some major cities and several Tier-II cities now on,as per the truncated schedule it has submitted to the aviation regulator.

Among the cities to which it would not operate direct flights include Jaipur,Thiruvananthapuram,Nagpur and even Hyderabad,sources said quoting the fresh schedule the airline submitted to the Directorate General of Civil Aviation DGCA.

Kingfisher flyers who wish to travel to such destinations would have to be routed through other cities like its base in Mumbai or Bangalore. The 28 operational aircraft are 13 Airbus A-320s,four Airbus A-330s and 11 turbo-prop ATRs.

The airline has said that it had no shortage of pilots and at present,their strength was 510.