Kingfisher drops HYD <> DEL flights?
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Kingfisher drops HYD <> DEL flights?
I was booked on IT 802 and 803 rt between DEL and HYD, and without so much as an email, had my flights rescheduled to 801 and 804, which is about a 12h time difference, so I had to switch to 9W. Thank goodness I checked my itinerary again. Does anyone know if these flights are dropped permanently? Not that I am eager to be back on Kingfisher after this...
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Lately (i.e. past year or so)..it seems that IT is canceling alot of flights (reducing capacity) without much of an advance notice (and all they would do is refund the ticket..not protect on another carrier). I bet they publish a schedule to keep the slots then "cancel" the flights and consolidate 2 flights to 1.. Isn't IT hurting financially?
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Lately (i.e. past year or so)..it seems that IT is canceling alot of flights (reducing capacity) without much of an advance notice (and all they would do is refund the ticket..not protect on another carrier). I bet they publish a schedule to keep the slots then "cancel" the flights and consolidate 2 flights to 1.. Isn't IT hurting financially?
chk this out for more details as also some other threads in the airlines of india forum..http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/airli...ded-a320s.html
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I was booked on IT 802 and 803 rt between DEL and HYD, and without so much as an email, had my flights rescheduled to 801 and 804, which is about a 12h time difference, so I had to switch to 9W. Thank goodness I checked my itinerary again. Does anyone know if these flights are dropped permanently? Not that I am eager to be back on Kingfisher after this...
IT802/803 is to be back on 01OCT10 and 3rd daily from 31OCT10
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I would not trust the above dates at present and if I hv an option, I will make bookings in other airlines..whtever be my dates, I will avoid KF at present .. lately seeing a lot of abrupt cancellations from them and all last minute and they only try to refund the fare amount to u and not get u on another airline
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These cancellations are nothing new for KF. Bout a year back, my brother was booked MAA - DEL (KF) & DEL - EWR (Continental)..was a cheap economy ticket booked via Yatra. This, after we shopped around a bit for a cheap deal, without too many stops.
The original routing was the evening flight to DEL and there were a few hours to spare before he would have to catch the long haul to EWR. KF without any warning whatsoever cancelled this evening flight and booked him on the morning flight, which as a result left him with 12+ hours to kill in DEL airport...!! No reasons were given and they refused to put him on another carrier that evening..Yatra wasn't any better either with regard to resolving this issue and at the end of it all, just had to go with this crap morning flight option...
So, it's normal practice for KF i guess...
The original routing was the evening flight to DEL and there were a few hours to spare before he would have to catch the long haul to EWR. KF without any warning whatsoever cancelled this evening flight and booked him on the morning flight, which as a result left him with 12+ hours to kill in DEL airport...!! No reasons were given and they refused to put him on another carrier that evening..Yatra wasn't any better either with regard to resolving this issue and at the end of it all, just had to go with this crap morning flight option...
So, it's normal practice for KF i guess...
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While I do agree they aren't likely to go bust any time soon, there's a strange, disquieting quietness about IT lately. Very different from 9W, that's been tom-tomming anything and everything, sending out mailers by post, email notices, etc, always being in the news and screaming for eyeball attention. Something's up, and I'd like to know what.