New Overseas Operations Launch by Kingfisher Airlines

Kingfisher airlines have announced its service of daily international flight from Mumbai to London with effect from 5^th January’09. After this launch the Kingfisher airlines will have two overseas operations. It’s already running Bangalore to London flight was launched in September last year. Airline has also decided to launch Mumbai-Hong Kong operations from 12^th January’09 and Mumbai-Singapore operations from 16^th January’09. Kingfisher airlines have also planned to Launch Bangalore-Chennai-Colombo flight service from 19^th January’09 onwards.

The timings of the Mumbai-London flight will take off at 1:50 p.m. from Mumbai and it will arrive at Heathrow at 5:55 p.m. The return flight would leave London at 8:30 p.m. and will arrive the next day at 11 a.m. in the morning.

Oil companies strike affect airlines

The state-run oil companies proposed strike from 7th January’09. 55,000 officers of 14 Oil companies announced strike on 6th January’09 which is definitely going to affect the airlines. In response Jet airways said “Jet airways and JetLite flights will not be affected by the strike and flights will be operated as per normal schedule”, Kingfisher airlines said they were already prepared to deal with the situation, Air India too said this strike won’t affect their daily flight operations.

On the whole the airlines pretend that they are not being affected by the oil companies strike but somewhere an impact will be seen in the flight operations due to this strike as the time passes by.