Akasa Air adds Chennai to its network

Expanding its footprints to key metro cities, the country’s newest airline Akasa Air has added Chennai to its network by launching daily direct flights between Tamil Nadu- the capital, and its base-city Mumbai. The Southern city will be the airline’s fifth destination after Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Kochi, and
Mumbai. Daily direct flights will commence between Chennai and Mumbai starting September 15.

The country’s newest airline has also added a new route between Ahmedabad and Bengaluru, which will commence on August 23. Expanding its network in phases, Akasa Air had earlier announced its daily direct flights between Bengaluru and Mumbai starting August 19. It is now ready to enhance the capacity in this sector with additional daily flights, commencing August 30 and September 19 respectively.

Commenting on Akasa Air’s network expansion plans and increase in flight frequencies, Praveen Iyer, Co-Founder and Chief Commercial Officer, Akasa Air, said, “With the first flight scheduled to take off on August 7, we have seen tremendous response for booking from travellers and our first flight got soldout
within a day of going live.

With an aircraft arriving every fortnight, we are delighted to augment our network to meet our commitment of progressively adding more cities along new sectors to establish a strong pan-India presence, with a focus on the metro to tier 2 & 3 route connectivity”.

On July 22, Akasa Air opened bookings for ticket sales of its first commercial flight and unveiled its customer experience strategy with several category- first services & product choices. Flying with the airline code QP, Akasa Air will begin commercial operations with two aircraft from August 7.

It will add an additional two aircraft each month and by the end of 2023, it will have inducted 18 aircraft. It plans to add another 12 to 14 planes every 12 months, which will make up its order of 72 Boeing 737 MAX aircraft, delivered over five years.