An kafa kamfanin jirgin sama na Kingfisher a shekarar 2003. Kamfanin mallakar kamfanin United Breweries Group ne da ke Bengaluru. Kamfanin jirgin sama ya fara ayyukan kasuwanci ne a ranar 9 ga Mayu 2005 tare da sabbin jiragen sama guda hudu na Airbus A320-200 da ke aiki daga Mumbai zuwa Delhi. Ya fara ayyukansa na kasa da kasa a ranar 3 ga Satumba 2008 ta hanyar hada Bengaluru da London. Babban ofishin Kingfisher yana cikin gidan Kingfisher a Vile Parle (Gabas), Mumbai, amma daga baya ya koma The Qube a Andheri (Gabas), Mumbai. Ofishin da aka yi rajista yana cikin UB City, Bengaluru. A watan Nuwamba na 2005, a lokacin taron tattalin arzikin duniya, Shugaba Vijay Mallya ya sanar da niyyar kamfanin jirgin sama na ƙaddamar da IPO zuwa dala miliyan 200 don fadada kamfanonin jiragen sama da yiwuwar karɓar (ciki har da na Sahara Air wanda aka sa ido a lokacin).
Shekarar 2003