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Old Jun 4, 2007, 6:14 am
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Originally Posted by hserus
Oh, the 4..5 years of domestic ops before being allowed to fly international thing?

That too, except that Mallya has a "me too" thing about full service carriers needing a cheapie subsidiary (United / Ted, Delta / Song, 9W / S2 and now IT / DN)
I wonder what happened to his plan to work around the required number of years of domestic operation by starting up a US-based Kingfisher airlines to take advantage of the liberalized air market agreement between the US and India. Probably hit the US government "foreign control"/ownership snag when it came to starting that up.
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