{"id":500554,"date":"2022-06-25T09:52:24","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T04:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=500554"},"modified":"2022-06-25T09:59:53","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T04:29:53","slug":"akasa-plans-test-flight-next-week-expects-commercial-start-by-late-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/akasa-plans-test-flight-next-week-expects-commercial-start-by-late-july\/","title":{"rendered":"Akasa plans test flight next week; expects commercial start by late-July"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Akasa, India\u2019s newest airline, will conduct a proving flight with the country\u2019s Directorate General of Civil Aviation as early as next week as it looks to start commercial services by around the end of July, Chief Executive Officer Vinay Dube said Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Akasa, backed by billionaire Rakesh Jhunjhunwala, will likely receive its air operator\u2019s certificate within days of the proving flight, apply for airport slots and start to sell tickets within a two to three week period, Dube said in an interview at the startup airline\u2019s office in Mumbai.<\/p>\n<p>The value carrier\u2019s first routes will be domestic, with a focus on point-to-point services. International flights are on track to start in the second half of 2023, said Dube, a former Delta Air Lines Inc. veteran who also ran Jet Airways India Ltd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Akasa, India\u2019s newest airline, will conduct a proving flight with the country\u2019s Directorate General of Civil Aviation as early as next week as it looks to start commercial services by around the end of July, Chief Executive Officer Vinay Dube said Friday. Akasa, backed by billionaire Rakesh Jhunjhunwala, will likely receive its air operator\u2019s certificate within days of the proving flight, apply for airport slots and start to sell tickets within a two to three week period, Dube said in an interview at the startup airline\u2019s office in Mumbai. The value carrier\u2019s first routes will be domestic, with a focus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-500554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}