Kingfisher Airlines’ consortium of lenders to meet today

05 Sep 2012 Evaluate

The consortium of lenders to debt ridden Kingfisher Airlines (KFA) will meet today to discuss the future plans with their exposure to the Vijay Mallya promoted carrier. Promoter’s bringing more equity to table, status on the sale of assets planned earlier and the current operational condition will be some of the issues taken on board for discussion. Further, the meeting besides consortium of 17 lenders will be attended by UB Group CFO Ravi Nedungadi, Kingfisher CEO Sanjay Agarwal, among others. This meeting assumes significance in the wake of aviation consultancy, Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation’s latest report, which predicted Kingfisher Airlines to go off air in a month or two if its promoters fail to raise enough funds to service its liabilities.

As many as 17 consortiums of banks, led by SBI, have exposure of over Rs 7,000 crore in advances to the beleaguered carrier. Airlines total long-term borrowings stood at Rs 5,695 crore as on March 31, 2012, lower from Rs 6,306 crore a year ago. Besides, its short-term borrowings were at Rs 2,335 crore at the end of 2011-12, up from Rs 604 crore as on March 31, 2011. Meanwhile, Kingfisher's net loss has more than doubled to Rs 2,328 crore in 2011-12, from Rs 1,027 crore in the previous year. The carrier’s net loss for the June quarter was at Rs 650 crore.

Meanwhile, the lenders last met in July, wherein they appointed HDFC Securities to ascertain the value of promoter’s two pledged properties, the Kingfisher House in Mumbai and the Kingfisher Villa in Goa - which collectively have a market value of around Rs 180 crore - with a view to dispose them of as part of their recovery measures.

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