 Kingfisher Airlines Limited was an airline group based in India.

 It was founded in 2003 and commenced it's operations from 9 may 2005.

 Parent company - United Breweries Group

 CMD - vijay mallya CEO - sanjay aggarwal

 International operations - 3rd september 2008

 Kingfisher's head office was located in the Kingfisher House in Vile Parle (East), Mumbai
but later moved to The Qube in Andheri (East), Mumbai.
Until December 2011, Kingfisher Airlines had the second largest share in India's domestic
air travel market.

failure
 Ever since the airline commenced operations in 2005, it reported losses.

 It was believed that Vijay Mallya and his team failed to do due diligence on the airline and
that it was this deal that brought down his empire.

 In 2008 An initial name change to Kingfisher Red, and promotion as the domestic budget
Kingfisher airline failed to stem losses and Kingfisher suffered a loss of over ₹10 billion
(US$140 million) for three consecutive years
 On 28 September 2011, Vijay Mallya announced that the company would soon stop
operations of Kingfisher Red as it did not believe in low-cost operations any longer.

 The airline ran into continuous losses since its inception, ran high debts and finally closed
its operations in 2012. Its chairman Vijay Mallya subsequently fled to London to hide from
creditors and the people of India.

 ceased operations - oct 2012 (flights suspended)

feb 2013 (licence revoked)