They can't rebook people easily because of the ICH suspension, so I assume that they will offer refunds.. However, considering that IT doesn't have any cash to pay for the refunds, I don't know...

Hopefully they won't just leave pax SOL.

Kingfisher's latest press release, that looks like it was written by one of the clueless JetChildren.

Some highlights:
* There is a lot of sensational speculation and assumption about us.
* Our prime mission is to maintain schedule integrity
* We request one and all to appreciate the serious handicaps we face
* our wide body overseas operations that are bleeding heavily
* We are trying to protect the interests of our valuable employees.

Dear oh dear oh dear.

http://www.flykingfisher.com/media-c...-airlines.aspx

I like the way they spun the A330 getting impounded to "We would like to confirm that we are curtailing our wide body overseas operations that are bleeding heavily. To this end we have already returned one Airbus A 330-200 to the lessor in the UK. Positive and immediate action is being taken on all fronts to cut costs."

As if they had a choice.

They can all blame the Govt of India. :D Precedence has already been set. ;)

When did the 330 get repo'd?

Unconfirmed report is that that happened at Heathrow last night.

There have been sightings of it sitting in an LHR hangar and today's flight back is cancelled. So something's up for sure; a repo being most likely.

Is it the BOM flight that is affected?

Tweet I just saw from AirlineRoute:

Kingfisher Cancels "last surviving International route", Delhi - Dubai, starting 25MAR12

The fact that Kingfisher is trying to put a positive spin on the unconfirmed repo at LHR would be nothing new.

I recall the same thing happening a few months ago, when Kingfisher grounded KF RED flights also, to "focus on the lucrative full service segment of the market". :D

These guys cannot be trusted to say anything truthful.

Totally OT, but I spoke too soon.

I was at the hospital early this morning and had to register.

The form asked for the usual basic information, name age etc. It also wanted to know my religion.

I put a line through it and turned in the form.

Woman: "What's your religion?"
Me: "How does it matter?"
Woman: "Some people are Jain and they want Jain food, so we need to know."
Me: "I'm going to be gone in an hour and you're not going to feed me so never mind."
Woman: "But I have to write something."
Me: "Write 'none'."

Next thing I know, she wrote "Christian". :rolleyes:

You could always say "Pastafarian" - it's always fun to watch the reactions after telling someone in India that is my religion...

not in rural india....over there caste & religion are the most prevalent things....

But when one corporation controls the other corporation?

In any event, this is not about making anyone do anything. It's about the responsibility (not) assumed by an entrepreneur, moral, legal, or financial.

That's true. But this was in Bombay and it was a hospital registration form.

Time and place remain elusive concepts !

And still OT, but remain clueless about the meaning of caste :p

A hospital asking for religion has valid reasons. You don;t have to answer the question if you don;t care for it. But if you don't, you can't sue the hospital for not handling your body according to your religious preferences, nor for circumcising or not circumcising your newborn son. :D

Not normally, unless you can prove that money was funnel illegally from one corporation to another.