On Wednesday, India's No 2 private carrier, Kingfisher Airlines reported that it has got the approval from the federal government to operate flights on nine international routes.

A spokesman of the company said, "Kingfisher has received approvals to operate Mumbai-London, Kolkata-Dhaka, Kolkata-Chittagong, Mumbai-Hong Kong, Mumbai-Singapore, Chennai-Colombo, Bangalore-Colombo, Bangalore-Bangkok and Mumbai-Bangkok flights."

He added, "The time frame for launch of these services will be announced progressively."

However, it was not specified by him whether the flights would operate on a daily basis or not. He said that these details are being worked out.

Kingfisher's shares went up as much as 9.8 percent after the news came out. Their shares are trading at 28.90 rupees.

As of now, Kingfisher operates daily flights between Bangalore and London, its only foreign route.

In August this year, the Civil Aviation Ministry had agreed for Kingfisher to operate international routes.