New Delhi: Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) may suspend Kingfisher Airlines’ (KFA) licence for failing to adhere to the deadline given by the aviation regulator, as per media reports.

According to  news sources have said that the aviation regulator is likely to suspend KFA licence today.

DGCA had fixed October 20 as the last date for KFA to come up with a viable financial revival plan.

The DGCA had issued a show-cause notice on October 5 to the liquor baron Vijay Mallya-owned airline asking why its flying licence should not be suspended or cancelled as it was not adhering to its flight schedule and “abruptly cancelling its flights time and again during the last 10 months”, causing great inconvenience to the travelling public.

Later the airline issued a statement saying it had “extended the partial lockout until October 23, 2012. We had a positive meeting with employee representatives on October 17 and are hopeful of reaching common ground when we meet again next week.

“Currently, we anticipate resuming operations on November 6, subject to our resumption plan being reviewed and approved by the DGCA.”

The official sources made it clear that Kingfisher could not resume operations till the DGCA gave the final clearance.

The beleaguered carrier did not mention extension of the lockout in their “open-ended” reply to DGCA, they said, adding that the airline, in its letter, sought more time to prepare a response to the DGCA notice but did not give any deadline.