Detailed Analysis of Ethical Issues Faced by Kingfisher Airlines

Question: Discuss about the Business Ethics for Kingfisher Airlines? Answer: Introduction Ethical issues are becoming a serious concern in any kind of business organization. People would find few coverage of an ethical issue sometimes just by browsing through the daily newspaper (Carroll, 2013). Basically, there is no shortage of the stories on several ethical issues. Therefore, this study has basically aimed to cover some of the ethical issues that the Kingfisher airlines as well as Vijay Mallya have been faced. Main Body Kingfisher Airlines was a major airline group based in Mumbai, India. Kingfisher Airlines is the fifth biggest passenger airline that provides primarily international as well as national, long and short haul, medium to high fare and high frequency services (Carroll, 2013). Being one of the major airline organizations, it has faced several ethical issues due to several wrongdoings taken place in the organization. Kingfisher was the most to suffer amongst several other Indian carriers due to the occurrence of those unethical issues in the organization. The lack of delegation is the prime and primary reason (Boettcher et al. 2014). The Kingfisher airline has been crash landing as of a trouble with the random changes made in the direction and strategy as well as the absenteeism of no ling term MD or CEO. The in-flight interruption is another important unethical issue of Kingfisher Airlines. Flights are relative boring in comparison with the other transport like rail (Carroll, 2013). However, most of the passengers of the domestic flights are not looking forward to the in-flight entertainment (Boettcher et al. 2014). The in-flight entertainment can become usable only for the passengers on the international flights. Unfair fares of flights are also major unethical issue. While KFA offered truly a luxury and premium service it has taken pride in calling itself as a budget airline (Carroll 2013). They have refrained them from calling themselves a Low-cost-carrier because its fare were higher that the LCCs. Dr. Mallya amongst these all forgot that he was doing their operations in a business where the taxes are discretionary and costs for fuel are variable. Moreover, the high-blitz advertising costs incorporating the contract with Ms Padukone, has resulted in an extra-ordinary lounges at the expensive and expansive frills, tele-booking centers, government cuisine and airports. According to Vijay Mallya, the chairman of Kingfisher Airlines, he does not take things personally. However, probably, it is one reason why the Kingfisher airlines disaster. Conclusion In this article, several unethical issues of the Kingfisher Airlines have been analyzed. At present Kingfisher Airlines is officially out of funds and on the other hand unofficially bankrupt. The only wrong thing was done by this airlines organization is that Kingfisher airlines have completely entertained several unethical issues. Being a major and popular organization, Kingfisher Airlines should not allow any disloyalty to the passengers. In future, it may happen that the organization would lose their existence due to all these consequences. Therefore, these problems or the issues have become the major reason for this pathetic condition of the company. References Carroll, A. B. (2013).Business ethics: Brief readings on vital topics. Routledge. Boettcher, J., Cavanagh, G., Xu, M. (2014). Ethical Issues that arise in Bankruptcy.Business and Society Review,119(4), 473-496.