India has a brand-new airline in Akasa Air which launched its first flight between Mumbai and Ahmedabad on Sunday morning.
The airline will offer 28 weekly flights on this route, followed by the same frequency on Bengaluru -Kochi from August 13 and Bengaluru- Mumbai from August 19 making a total of 82 weekly flights available within the first few weeks of its launch. The airline aims to provide connectivity between metro and tier-2 and tier-3 cities instead of the cut-throat metro to metro routes.
Minister for Civil Aviation Jyotiraditya Scindia and Minister of State for Civil Aviation V K Singh attended the launch ceremony virtually. Minister Scindia called the occasion a “new dawn” for the Indian civil aviation sector.
