Originally Posted by
Himeno
Kingfisher may be getting assistance from EY soon. If it happens and Kingfisher resumes flying isn't known, nor is if they would still join the alliance. Oneworld has Sri Lankan joining soon, which covers a number of cities in India from CMB.
There is also the question of Jet. They have similar problems to Kingfisher (just not quite as bad) and are also being looked at by EY. If they go to oneworld or Star remains to be seen.
A lot of people here seem to think that air travel is inherently safe and all airlines adhere to at least some government-mandated level of safety. That's a beautiful thought and correct to some level, but if the truth were known the worriers among us would pick carriers more carefully.
pprune dot org is an interesting place to get pilots' perspective on the matter, though they tend to espouse an impractically high standard and refer to us as "SLF" - "Self-loading-Freight".
What I'm saying here is that I'd be reluctant to book Kingfisher because of its management (and financial state) regardless of which alliance it belongs to.
FWIW AF is on my same "reluctant" list because they seem to have no problem launching aircraft manned by a crew that culturally or technically can maneuver it into a stall at cruise and fail to recover as it relatively slowly decends into the ocean with the loss of all aboard, a completely unforgiveable act imo. [/DIATRIBE]
John