{"id":515327,"date":"2022-08-18T11:02:31","date_gmt":"2022-08-18T05:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=515327"},"modified":"2022-08-18T12:55:53","modified_gmt":"2022-08-18T07:25:53","slug":"akasa-air-well-capitalised-strong-financials-to-place-order-for-more-planes-in-next-18-months-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/akasa-air-well-capitalised-strong-financials-to-place-order-for-more-planes-in-next-18-months-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"Akasa Air well-capitalised; strong financials to place order for more planes in next 18 months: CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Akasa Air is well-capitalised and its growth is secure with the financial means to place an order for more planes, its chief Vinay Dube said on Wednesday, days after the passing away of the airline\u2019s key investor Rakesh Jhunjhunwala.<\/p>\n<p>The carrier, which took to the skies on August 7, received its third aircraft on August 16 and the same will be used for flights on the Mumbai-Bengaluru route shortly.<\/p>\n<p>With the passing away of ace investor Jhunjhuwala, whose backing itself had provided a tailwind for the country\u2019s newest airline, the future trajectory of the airline will be closely watched.<\/p>\n<p>Against this backdrop, Dube on Wednesday thanked Jhunjhunwala for his support in recruiting some of the best aviation talents in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Akasa Air is well-capitalised and its growth is secure with the financial means to place an order for more planes, its chief Vinay Dube said on Wednesday, days after the passing away of the airline\u2019s key investor Rakesh Jhunjhunwala. The carrier, which took to the skies on August 7, received its third aircraft on August 16 and the same will be used for flights on the Mumbai-Bengaluru route shortly. With the passing away of ace investor Jhunjhuwala, whose backing itself had provided a tailwind for the country\u2019s newest airline, the future trajectory of the airline will be closely watched. Against [&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":[212,130,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-515327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-pioneer","category-newspapers","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515327","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=515327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}