Kingfisher Airlines is likely to return and impend deregistration of at least five ATR aircraft. The turbo-prop aircraft are used for flights to secondary cities. In the last few days, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation received a letter from a lawyer firm to deregister the five ATR aircraft.
The company expects that existence of these aircraft will not affect the operations of Kingfisher Airlines as the new schedule does not include them. The number of narrow body aircraft being deregistered could more than double. The narrow body aircraft in the airline's fleet include Airbus A-320 and ATR.
The airline is currently operating a fleet of 20 aircraft of which 16 are used to operate flights. Earlier, the airline operated a fleet of more than 60 aircraft. It now operates about 120 daily flights, down from more than the 400 flights earlier.
