Ministry of Civil Aviation has withdrawn all international flying rights and domestic slots from the troubled carrier Kingfisher Airlines, terminating all hopes for the loss-laden airline to make a possible comeback. 

The government decided to take away these rights to free them up for use by other carriers. 

In an official statement, the ministry of civil aviation announced the withdrawal of all international bilateral traffic rights allocated to the Vijay Mallya-owned carrier with "immediate effect". 

"Kingfisher Airlines were allowed to fly the sky of eight countries namely Bangladesh (14 services per week), Hong Kong (14 services per week), Nepal (7 services per week), Singapore (7 services per week), Sri Lanka(14 services per week + 21 services per week from unlimited 18 destinations), Thailand (21 services per week), UAE Dubai (21 services per week) and UK (7 services per week each from Mumbai, Delhi and Bangalore)," an official statement said. 

These traffic rights were allocated to Kingfisher Airlines between the years 2008 and 2011 and have been withdrawn from Kingfisher Airlines on account of non-utilisation, the statement added. 

"This would give additional availability of approximately 25,000 seats per week for use by other Indian carriers to these eight countries, some of which are much in demand by these carriers," the statement said. 

Similarly, the ministry also decided to withdraw the domestic slots, which were allocated to Kingfisher Airlines at different airports for domestic flights. The Airports Authority of India has been directed to make these slots available to other domestic carriers as per their demand.

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