Kingfisher To Start Flights India – Barcelona soon
7 01 2009
The Indian company Kingfisher, owned by billionaire Vijay Mallya, the Spanish government has announced its intention to launch “an immediate” direct route, nonstop between India and Barcelona, the first to unite the country with Spain.
The information was gathered after a close door meeting at the Taj Mahal hotel in Bombay between Indian entrepreneurs and senior representatives of the Spanish government.
Kingfisher is a leading private airline in the country, along with Jet Airways. According to government sources, the company has not decided from which of Indian airports operate the route from, Bombay or New Delhi, but have confirmed that the destination in Spain will be the Catalan capital.
The existence of a direct connection between Spain and India would facilitate trade relations between the two countries, one of the objectives of the trip by the Spanish group led by Vice President Maria Teresa Fernandez de la Vega.
By: KabirT - 9th January 2009 at 16:59
yea Iberia long back though… 85/86
By: keltic - 9th January 2009 at 16:54
WOWWW, great. I´ve been to India, but a good reason to go back, and sampling the nice Kingfisher First. However I have to correct one thing. Iberia and Air Europa operated shorly from Madrid and Bombay some years ago.
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January 8, 2009 at 6:29 pm