NEW DELHI: The government has given the nod to 13-month-old Akasa to start international flights which it will do this coming winter. However, for now the youngest Indian airline is fighting on two fronts: an exodus by 43 pilots that has forced it to cancel hundreds of flights in last 2-3 months. Akasa sued these pilots and its lawyer on Tuesday said in a court that the airline was in a \u201cstate of crises\u201d and might \u201cshut down\u201d due to their leaving without serving the mandatory notice period of six and 12 months for co-pilots and captains, respectively. A day later the airline management tried to dispel concerns caused by this statement in both employees and passengers alike.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are on track to announce a 3-digit aircraft order by the end of this year to serve the growing travel demand,\u201d the airline said in a statement. Akasa co-founder and chief executive Vinay Dube told employees on Wednesday that it had \u201cenough pilots at various phases of their training to fly over 30 aircraft\u201d while describing the exodus as \u201cshort-term constraints\u201d that had led to \u201cfly less and give up market share in the short term to offer a more reliable network to customers.\u201d He assured employees that Akasa was \u201cnever more confident\u201d about its future. Dube said the airline had enough funds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
NEW DELHI: The government has given the nod to 13-month-old Akasa to start international flights which it will do this coming winter. However, for now the youngest Indian airline is fighting on two fronts: an exodus by 43 pilots that has forced it to cancel hundreds of flights in last 2-3 months. Akasa sued these pilots and its lawyer on Tuesday said in a court that the airline was in a \u201cstate of crises\u201d and might \u201cshut down\u201d due to their leaving without serving the mandatory notice period of six and 12 months for co-pilots and captains, respectively. A day […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,130,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-605007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605007","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}