Regardless of dealing with uncertainty over plane deliveries from embattled Boeing, Dube assured staff that “we’re poised to develop sooner than many thought attainable” and that Akasa is the “solely Indian airline in historical past to succeed in a agency guide order of this dimension (226 MAX) inside 17 months of commencing operations….Laying the muse for unprecedented progress.”
Dube had a City Corridor with the pilots on Wednesday. The airline has just below 800 pilots with a present fleet dimension of 24 planes. Boeing delivered the final MAX to the airline this Feb. Pilots are getting more and more involved over sluggish coaching and really low flying that has affected their pay cheques. Throughout Wednesday’s City Corridor, some pilots raised this problem with the founder-CEO. Akasa is seeing at what charge is Boeing in a position to ship the ordered planes and can accordingly resolve on alternates.
Funded by late huge bull Rakesh Jhunjhunwala, Akasa has its first flight from Mumbai to Ahmedabad on Aug 7, 2022. The airline says it has flown over 1.1 crore passengers since then. “Akasa Air has registered triple-digit progress and continues to be the fastest-growing airline in world aviation historical past,” it stated in a press release.
Dube stated: “Two years in the past, we launched into a journey with a imaginative and prescient to redefine air journey, and right this moment, I can proudly say that we have now efficiently delivered on our objective whereas upholding our dedication to reliability, service excellence and affordability…. On this previous 12 months, we have now persistently been India’s chief in on-time efficiency whereas registering higher operational reliability, and the bottom buyer complaints, and cancellations within the trade. These milestones wouldn’t have been attainable with out the dedication of over 4000 Akasians whose effort and fervour have been the driving power behind our collective achievements.”
At the moment connecting 22 home and 5 worldwide cities, Akasa now operates over 900 weekly flights.