{"id":559395,"date":"2023-03-01T16:09:34","date_gmt":"2023-03-01T10:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=559395"},"modified":"2023-03-01T16:09:34","modified_gmt":"2023-03-01T10:39:34","slug":"akasa-air-to-place-order-for-fleet-of-aircraft-in-three-digits-by-year-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/akasa-air-to-place-order-for-fleet-of-aircraft-in-three-digits-by-year-end\/","title":{"rendered":"Akasa Air to place order for fleet of aircraft in three digits by year-end"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Akasa Air is going to place an order for a fleet of aircraft which will be in three digits by the year-end, the company said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The company&#8217;s founder and Chief Executive Officer, Vinay Dube said it plans to go international by the year-end and intends to set up a learning academy in Bengaluru.<\/p>\n<p>He also said Akasa has already ordered a fleet of 72 aircraft of which 18 have been delivered.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;By the end of the year we will place a large order for aircraft. I&#8217;m not going to disclose the number but the order will be in three digits and it will be significant,&#8221; Dube said in a press conference here.<\/p>\n<p>In the next one year, Akasa is going to hire 300 pilots, Dube said, adding that the company is also going to open a learning centre in Bengaluru.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, Akasa Air will need at least 3,500 pilots in the next one decade.<\/p>\n<p>The company completed six months of its operations to become the fastest growing airlines in the country, it said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>With 36 daily flights from Bengaluru, Akasa Air is the third largest domestic carrier in the city, it noted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Akasa Air is going to place an order for a fleet of aircraft which will be in three digits by the year-end, the company said on Wednesday. The company&#8217;s founder and Chief Executive Officer, Vinay Dube said it plans to go international by the year-end and intends to set up a learning academy in Bengaluru. He also said Akasa has already ordered a fleet of 72 aircraft of which 18 have been delivered. &#8220;By the end of the year we will place a large order for aircraft. I&#8217;m not going to disclose the number but the order will be in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[229],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-559395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559395","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}