DGCA Issued Show-Cause Notice to Kingfisher Airlines

The Aviation regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on 5 October 2012 issued  a show- cause notice to kingfisher Airlines asking why its license should not be suspended or scrapped for failing to ensure safe, efficient and reliable services under Section 15(2)(b) of Schedule XI of the Aircraft Rules of 1937.

The DGCA notice came out when Kingfisher Airlines has grounded all operations and extended lockout till October 12 after failing to resolve with striking engineers and pilots to the deadlock over non-payment of salaries for last seven months.
 
In Delhi and Mumbai, angry staff of the private airline staged protest demonstrations wearing black-bands and carrying placards, to demand speedy disbursal of their dues. Their protests came in the backdrop of suicide committed by the wife of a Kingfisher employee in Delhi on 4 October 2012 apparently owing to non-payment of salaries.

The operations of the King Fisher Airlines are under suspension since September 30, 2012 due to strike by its employees.

As per Section 15(2)(b) of Schedule XI of the Aircraft Rules 1937, DGCA may cancel or suspend permit of an Airline for such period as he thinks fit, if he is satisfied that the holder of the permit has failed to establish a safe, efficient and reliable service.