Kingfisher to get Jet after Deccan
The alliance
between country's two biggest private carriers Jet Airways and Kingfisher
Airlines will take six months to be fully operational, according to Kingfisher
Chairman Vijay Mallya.
Already the
two carriers were cooperating "very closely in many ways" but it was
not as simple as it sounded to operationalise the agreement, signed by them
last October, Mallya told PTI.
"One project is taken at a time. If you decide that frequencies on a particular
route operated by either Kingfisher or Jet are going to be changed, it is not
as simple as making one phone call to the planning department and saying stop
the flight," he said.
Asked if the alliance could take off fully in the next three to six months, he
said: "Absolutely, hundred per cent." For the deal to be smoothly
implemented, Mallya's Airbus based fleet will have to be synergised with the
largely Boeing based fleet of Jet.
When the hand-holding process by the two would be completed, they will command
a market share of about 58 per cent (based on calendar 2008 figures).
Let see hoe far this new alliance will go, looking at the way how
|