Silver Angel,

Firstly, some airlines do give you 46 kg, Bmi for example on their US and Caribbean routes (until they were dropped). I flew with them to Antigua last year, it was great! The flight company is correct that a bag of that weight would be in breach of health and safety regulations (max 32kg for manual handling). Most airlines offering that weight allow you to check-in two bags up to 23kg, or multiple bags up to the limit.

On the topic of kingfisher, you don't say where you are flying from / to? Presumably Heathrow - Balgalore - Goa as before? Baggage allowances are clearly stated on their website. From 1st Jan 2009, your allowance in Kingfisher Class is 45kg, but any one bag cannot weight more than 32kg (maximum weight that will be accepted for health and safety). Unless the company you are booking with has a deal with Kingfisher who provide a discount ticket with luggage restrictions attached (ie a cheap fare), you'll have the allowance described. I'd check it out before you book with them.

Darren

does anyone know if the kingfisher lhr-mum flights have a power supply in or around the seat in economy,,i know some airlines do have a power supply where you could chrge up an ipod for example??
thanks
robbie

robbie,

Seats Is Economy Do Not Have A Power Supply

Gower

we have just flown with Kingfisher to Goa via Bangalore out and Mumbai on return, with 45 kgs luggage each. We have just booked Kingfisher flights again for December with a certain flight company, and he has told me its 28 kgs each and he has never heard of any airline giving 45 kgs as its against the Health and Safety Regulations.

As the baggage allowances are clearly set out on Kingfisher's own website, am I right in saying that we have 45 kgs regardless of what this flight company is telling me or do I have to accept their version of 28 kgs?

This is not unusual, I have encountered it when booking a flight direct, and a connecting flight through a booking agent direct allowance 28Kgs, booking agent 23Kg all with the same airline, It may be down to the price you pay compared to booking direct, and the 45kgs obviously would be total personal allowance of all luggage and not per case.

Mids

my son wife and baby flew here this week with kingfisher, the plane was very empty and at check in they booked him TWO rows of seats so they could lie the baby down to sleep..i thought this was fantastic..unfortunately somebody decided to lie themselves down on the three they had given them (behind the 1st row) so it didnt work out but great service... both my sons have now travelled here with kingfisher and said it was brilliant.. re baggage allowance if you book a return flight from Goa (Goa-london, london-Goa) you only get 28 kilos unfortunately!! not fair!! we booked in the kingfisher office and they confirmed this although on the website it isnt terribly clear.. still at least it will be comfy and good service...
chilly

Apparently KingFisher has meetings over the next few days with the banks and lease companies that own its aircraft. There have been cancellations of future orders and routes (not unusual in todays climate), deferrals and further handbacks and repossessions in the last couple of weeks.

Probably well worth keeping an eye upon.

Nivsy

what exactly do you mean? we are booked with Kingfisher in December doing LHR-Bangalore-Goa and Goa-Mumbai-LHR coming back in january. Can we expect some routes to be pulled and flight cancellations?

Airbus has sold two A340 passenger planes meant for delivery to Kingfisher Airlines Ltd and are now separately trying to sub-lease two more A330 planes. Kingfisher may be winding down its once-ambitious plans to fly to international destinations such as San Francisco, Hong Kong, Singapore, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur and Kuwait, among others.The airline, including its low-cost service Kingfisher Red, currently connects Indian locations with London and Colombo.

Kingfisher had ordered 10 long-haul aircraft to start its international operations last year including five A340s—for routes such as Bangalore-San Francisco non-stop—and five A330s, which would fly between India and Europe.

It sold three of the A340 planes to Arik Air last year and, after keeping two A330s grounded for at least six months in India, is now in talks to sub-lease them to the same carrier.

London route is still fine as two A330s are being used by Kingfisher to operate between Mumbai and London and ply the Bangalore-London route with one aircraft as a standby.

With no new deliveries until next year, Kingfisher may restrict its international operations to London and Colombo though it can fly to West Asia and Asia-Pacific using some of the 43 medium-haul Airbus A320 in its fleet.

The two A330s to be sub-leased out by Kingfisher were expected to be utilized by the airline on Hong Kong and Singapore flights from Mumbai, which the airline had planned to launch by January-end this never happened..

The Dubai launch was expected first in January and then postponed further and removed from the reservations systems.

Kingfisher is not the only one pulling back on international operations. Jet Airways (India) Ltd has also leased out several wide-bodied aircraft in its fleet to West Asian carriers and by next month will have nine aircraft leased out.

Also of course Virgin Atlantic Airways Ltd plan to pull Mumbai-London flight from May, leaving a Delhi-London daily service as their only India operation.

Nivsy

well, further to my post above, Kingfisher cancelled our flight seats yesterday without any prior notice to us or the travel agent we booked them through. the travel agent is phoning Kingfisher over the weekend to try and find out why they cancelled and is getting back to me monday evening as they still have 150 gbp of our money.
So does anyone know what is going on with Kingfisher please?

thats not good silver angle.
im flying with them next fri,hope they dont pull the plug on my flights,
hope you get your money back!you will have to let us know how you get on

Booked Kingfisher for Nov/Dec Mumbai/Goa return flight,booked direct with Kingfisher and
paid in full so hope the domestic routes are OK
When our Virgin flight to Mumbai from Heathrow was cancelled we re booked with Jet as they
were around £30 pp cheaper than Kingfisher so glad i did as long as Jet don,t get into any
trouble.[paid in full]
annx

Just booked with kingfisher for 9th november till 25th november £798 for the two of us great timings aswell.Also booked private appartment at highland beach resort for £100 per week.Not bad eh two weeks for less than a £1000 bring it on. Can i also thank mike richardson and sleeps r us for there prompt pm . Now its just a matter of waiting untill nov cant wait this is our 15th year of going to goa and no matter what changes they make[and we have seen some]we still love the place
NEIL/KAZ

Great deal well done.

papa

didn't realize you were northern soulers i was a casino boy in my time to, if you get a chance and can bring any mixed CD's over let me know and i will pay you for them. PM me if you can get hold of some. look forward to meeting you in November.

Mike

No problem mike my self and karen used to go to the allniters in wigan in the 70s karen used to work in the cloakrooms to get in free .I actually still do a bit of deejaying so have a half decent collection of viynl
KEEP THE FAITH NEIL

Glad you got it all sorted out in the end..You'll have a lovely time you can start your countdown now like the rest who've booked..

Do I love you, Indeed I do.

that record sold two weeks ago for over £25,000 pounds frank wilson on soul
neil

we are at the highland beach and going on kingfisher in november.15th and paul my husband is a big viynl record collector northsoul.. will have to say hello. if we make it from mumbia.