Mumbai (PTI): Vijay Mallya-owned Kingfisher Airlines on Monday launched its first daily non-stop Mumbai-London flight with a new Airbus 330-200 aircraft, configured in two classes.

"The flight had almost full occupancy with 28 passengers in Kingfisher First and 169 in Kingfisher Class," company spokesperson told PTI.

The flight 'IT 007' left the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport (CSIA) at 1350 hrs and was carrying 10 chief executive officers of top travel agencies from Delhi and Mumbai, the spokerperson said.

The return flight from London 'IT 008' would leave at 2030 hrs and arrive at the Mumbai airport on the next day at 1100 hrs.

Mumbai-London is the private carrier's second overseas flight after the one on Bangalore-London route that was launched in September last year.

Kingfisher also plans to launch Mumbai-Hong Kong operations from January 12 and Mumbai-Singapore flight from January 16.

In addition, its flights from Bangalore and Chennai to Sri Lanka capital, Colombo, will start from January 19.