Vijay Mallya-promoted Kingfisher Airlines has the dubious distinction ofhaving the maximum cases of pilots found under the influence of alcohol before take-off.

A number of airlines including NareshGoyal's Jet were cited where pilots were reported to be under the influence ofalcohol in the past one year, the government informed the Rajya Sabha.

Incidentally, Mallya had named his airline after the most popular beer brand inhis brewery business.

"Eight pilots of Kingfisher Airlines, six each of Indigo andSpiceJet and three each of Jetlite, Jet Airways and Paramount were detectedalco-positive during pre-flight medical examination," Civil AviationMinister Praful Patel said in a written reply.

He was responding to a query on incidents of drunk pilots of private airlinesduring the last one year."Any pilot found to be alco-positive isimmediately grounded for a period of up to six weeks,"