Originally Posted by
candadep
Because of Indian govt regulations a carrier cannot fly international without having atleast 3 (or is it 5
?) years of flying experience. I think Kingfisher is trying to circumvent this by starting a US based ariline and flying into India.
With the trouble that Virgin USA (or is it Virgin America?) got into because of its inability to show control independent of non US citizens/bodies (Branson and Virgin Atlantic), I doubt that Mallya will be able to use his children's citizenship to get around domestic ownership rules in the US. At least in public statements, Mallya's approach has been to float a US airline in his US Citizen children's name. US DOT has clearly signalled that it will not allow that and ownership needs to be truly "controlled" by US citizens (not by Indian citizen father).