Akasa's focus to remain on connecting metro to non-metros: CEO
Business Standard|March 21, 2023
Akasa Air's will continue to focus on connecting metro and non-metro cities in the next one to two years, its founder and Chief Executive Officer Vinay Dube said on Monday. The airline will start operating international flights before December, he added.
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Akasa's focus to remain on connecting metro to non-metros: CEO

CAPA INDIA AVIATION SUMMIT 2023

In its summer schedule, the airline will operate 751 weekly flights. By the end of June, this number will rise to 925. Dube said: "Our focus is going to be on connecting the metros with tier-2 and tier-3 cities. While we do some metro-to-metro flying, we have got a lot of metro-to-non-metro cities like Bengaluru-Visakhapatnam, Bengaluru-Bhubaneswar, Bengaluru-Guwahati, and Bengaluru-Kochi." "For some time, we will focus on metro to nonmetro connectivity...In this network planning time horizon (during the next one to two years), that is where our focus is going to be," he said in an interview with Business Standard on the sidelines of the CAPA India Aviation Summit 2023.

Akasa Air operated its first commercial flight last August. It currently operates between 14 cities in the country.

As per regulations, only airlines with 20 planes can operate international flights.

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