1. Dear Colleagues,
Today is an important day in our history. Unfortunately a sad one.
Several of you have been in dialogue with our CEO and also Hitesh Patel. The
commitments made by them have been met to the extent of 75 percent as of yesterday.
We struggled immensely and I personally have devoted more time to our Airline than to
any other UB Group Company in addition to investing over Rs. 4,000 crores into
Kingfisher Airlines since we started.
We worked hard to gain the trust and confidence of our guests. Today, by forcibly
cancelling several flights we have lost most of that.
The media will disgrace us and our flights going forward will be empty leading to further
loss of income as our guests will not select Kingfisher if they are doubtful about the
integrity of our schedule.
Damaging the future of Kingfisher in the public eyes is not going to produce cash. It only
makes it more difficult to recover.
I really hope that good sense will prevail. I am doing my best. If some of you think that
cancelling flights, speaking to media, or disgracing our Company will produce cash and
salaries, you are wrong. This only makes my recapitalization efforts more difficult by
causing concern and apprehension among our potential investors.
One of the main reasons that has motivated me into investing more money to keep
Kingfisher flying is that I see light ahead. I invite you to share my confidence and work
towards realising that light.
I sincerely hope that all of you will listen carefully to my appeal and work together to
restore Kingfisher to its rightful place in the Aviation industry.
Regards,
Vijay Mallya,
Chairman