{"id":515290,"date":"2022-08-18T10:37:32","date_gmt":"2022-08-18T05:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=515290"},"modified":"2022-08-18T12:20:13","modified_gmt":"2022-08-18T06:50:13","slug":"akasa-air-to-add-new-aircraft-every-two-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/akasa-air-to-add-new-aircraft-every-two-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"Akasa Air to add new aircraft every two weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s Akasa Air said on Wednesday it would keep adding one new aircraft every two weeks after the country&#8217;s newest budget carrier received its third plane.<\/p>\n<p>Akasa began commercial operations on August 7 with a maiden flight from the country&#8217;s financial capital, Mumbai, to the city of Ahmedabad.<\/p>\n<p>Founder and Chief Executive Officer Vinay Dube said the airline was well-capitalized to induct 72 aircraft over the next five years, while mourning the death of Akasa&#8217;s top backer and ace investor Rakesh Jhunjhunwala who passed away on Sunday. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our financial platform is strong enough to allow Akasa to place an aircraft order in the next 18 months that will be significantly larger than our first,&#8221; Dube said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s Akasa Air said on Wednesday it would keep adding one new aircraft every two weeks after the country&#8217;s newest budget carrier received its third plane. Akasa began commercial operations on August 7 with a maiden flight from the country&#8217;s financial capital, Mumbai, to the city of Ahmedabad. Founder and Chief Executive Officer Vinay Dube said the airline was well-capitalized to induct 72 aircraft over the next five years, while mourning the death of Akasa&#8217;s top backer and ace investor Rakesh Jhunjhunwala who passed away on Sunday. &#8220;Our financial platform is strong enough to allow Akasa to place an aircraft [&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":[176,146,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-515290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515290","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=515290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}