Civil aviation minister Jyotiraditya Scindia on Sunday virtually flagged off Akasa Air’s first commercial flight, that departed from Mumbai to Ahmedabad, and termed the inauguration a “new dawn” for the civil aviation sector in the country in more ways than one.
Flight QP1101, with 189 passengers, took off from Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport at 10.05am and landed at Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport in Ahmedabad at 11:25 am.
The airline, backed by ace investor Rakesh Jhunjhunwala and aviation veterans Aditya Ghosh and Vinay Dube, received its air operator certificate from the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on July 7.
