Thursday, December 16, 2010

About Kingfisher Airlines

It is one of the privately owned and famed airlines in India, based in Bangalore India this airline has created a mark for itself over last few years since its commencement of operations in 2005. Kingfisher Airlines comes from the parent company "United Breweries Group" or popularly known as the "UB group". Having the main bases at Bengaluru International Airport, Chatrapati Shivaji International Airport, Rajiv Gandhi International Airport, Indira Gandhi International Airport, it operates a network of around 40 destinations with more than 200 flights per day.

Though being an domestic airlines till yet, it has shown intensions to fly to USA following the lease of new Airbuses A320 and A200 in coming times with Bangalore being its major hub. Currently this airline flies with two service classes Economy and Business and has been granted a 5 star rating from Skytrax.

Kingfisher as per its expansion plans have also acquired stake in Air Deccan airlines, which is an LCC in the market and have also shown intensions to acquire further stake in the same. Due to its inflight services and operations, Kingfisher airlines have also been awarded with lot of accolades and awards like the Business leadership award by NDTV, Economic Times Avaya award, India's favorite airlines in a survey by IMB, Service excellence for a New airline by Skytrax and more.

Kingfisher airlines have also started The Kingfisher airlines Tennis Open championship which has come up as a prestigious and high profile event by tennis fans across the world. This whole thing was started in order to reinforce the winning attributes and values of the Kingfisher brand. The currently held event of IPL cricket also had Kingfisher airlines as a sponsor for the Bangalore team. Mr Vijay Mallya, being the proud owner of this airline is all set to achieve higher targets and objectives in the coming time and he is all minds for it.

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