New Delhi: Kingfisher Airlines resumed its Kolkata operations on Wednesday after the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) asked them not to shut down their operations in the city on Tuesday. Four flights started from Kolkata to the northeast region.
However, flight cancellations in other cities continued as 14 flights were cancelled in Mumbai and four in Delhi on Wednesday.
The Kingfisher management will submit a detailed revised flight schedule to the DGCA by 12 noon. The DGCA pulled up the airlines' CEO Sanjay Aggarwal on Tuesday for the sudden flight cancellations and not coming up with a realistic plan. Kingfisher is currently operating 28 of its 64 aircraft.
But there could be an end in sight to the crisis. Sources have told CNN-IBN that the Income Tax department may defreeze its bank accounts, after Kingfisher has agreed to partially pay its dues.
The airlines owes as much as Rs 53.8 crore for financial year 2011 to the I-T department and Rs 100 crore for financial year 2012.
Sources have also said that Kingfisher paid Rs 21 crore as tax dues till December 2011 and is committed to pay Rs 130 crore TDS liability by FY 2012 end.
The carrier is also slated to pay Rs 43 crore service tax dues by March 2012.
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