During the tentative approval period, the airline attendants' union protested ValuJet's return to business, claiming that it would not be a safe airline unless members of its executive management, among them ValuJet CEO Lewis Jordan, were fired.

CNN: ValuJet back in the air at last - Sept. 26, 1996

Mallya and his management team at Kingfisher have been unable to devise an acceptable plan to keep the airline in business.

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