Akasa Air Orders Four More Boeing 737 MAX Planes At Paris Air Show, Takes Fleet To 76 Aircraft

[ad_1] Akasa Air, India’s newest airline, has announced an order for four additional Boeing 737-8 jets at the ongoing Paris Air Show, a follow-up to the already placed order of 72 aircraft. This order now takes the airline’s fleet to a total of 76 aircraft which include 23 737-8s and 53 high-capacity 737-8-200 aircraft. The … Read more

Akasa Air Passenger Detained For Smoking In Plane’s Lavatory At Bengaluru Airport

[ad_1] One passenger from the Akasa Air flight has been detained at Bengaluru Airport soon after landing for smoking mid-air while the flight was en route from Ahmedabad to Bengaluru on Tuesday. “A passenger on Akasa Air flight QP1326, flying from Ahmedabad to Bengaluru, was found smoking in the aircraft’s lavatory. Our crew followed the … Read more

Akasa Air Opens India’s Only Door Trainer, Expands Its Learning Academy

[ad_1] Akasa Air has inaugurated phase two of its training and development centre – Akasa Air Learning Academy (AALA) in Gurugram. The academy is aimed to enhance its capabilities in providing hands-on and experiential training to its employees, including pilots, cabin crew, engineers and airport services and security personnel. The training centre, which was opened … Read more

Flight Review: My First Akasa Air Experience Onboard Goa to Delhi Boeing 737 MAX Plane

[ad_1] Starting a new airline is a no small feat, starting a new airline in India is even tougher and starting a successful pan-India airline takes another level of grit. Well, that’s what I thought about the Akasa Air, soon after taking my first ever flight aboard an Akasa plane from the Manohar International Airport … Read more

Akasa: Akasa wants to be nimble, efficient rather than have a label: CEO Vinay Dube – Times of India

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Flying in the Indian skies for more than seven months now, Akasa Air wants to be nimble and efficient rather than have a label, which will sometimes pigeonhole the airline into doing and not doing certain things, according to its founder Vinay Dube.At the same time, he said that people have started … Read more