Kingfisher Airlines suspends flights from Kolkata from February 19-28, 2012

Kingfisher Airline has suspended all its seven flights from Calcutta for nine days from Sunday, fuelling speculation that the cash-strapped carrier will bid bye to the city skies. The Vijay Mallya-promoted airline grounded its daily Calcutta-Delhi flight this week and officials said operations on the other routes from the city, too, would remain grounded from February 19 to 28, 2012.

The airline’s website shows bookings for all its flights from Calcutta have been suspended during the period. “A couple of our aircraft have to be grounded because of technical reasons, prompting us to suspend operations. It’s a temporary measure and flights will resume soon,” a senior Kingfisher official said.