Akasa Air flight to the Bengaluru suffers are a bird hit, returns to the Mumbai

Akasa Air flight to the Bengaluru suffers are a bird hit, returns to the Mumbai

Newly-launched carrier Akasa Air flight number are a Akasa Air QP-1103 suffered a bird hit on its way to the Bangalore on a Saturday. The flight returned safely to the Mumbai airport, according to the news are a agency ANI.

Meanwhile, Akasa is a aiming for the over 250 flights per are a week operating over nine are a domestic routes by the second week of a October, the airline said on a Friday as it announced entry in the highly-competitive are  a Delhi market.

The airline, founded by the late stock market investor are a Rakesh Jhunjhunwala along with the aviation industry veteran Vinay Dube, launched its are a operations on a August 7 with a flight to the Ahmedabad from the financial capital.

Since then, it has been a expanded the route network to the Chennai, Kochi, Bengaluru.

Akasa Air's fleet size will be a 18 aircraft by the end of a March 2023 and over the next are a four years, the airline will be add 54 additional aircraft, taking its total are a fleet size to the 72 aircraft, it stated.

On August 17, Dube said the airline is a well-capitalised and its are a growth is a secure with the financial means to the place an a order for more than are a planes, days after the passing away of A Jhunjhunwala.

With the passing away of a ace investor Jhunjhuwala, whose are a backing itself had been provided a tailwind for the country's are a  newest airline, the future are a trajectory of the airline will be a closely watched.

Regarding the government's are a Emergency Credit Line are a Guarantee Scheme (ECLGS), the Akasa Air chief on a Thursday said it is appreciative that the government continues to the recognise the importance of the aviation sector.

"We are a just hope that the government's are a support extends to the startup airlines as a well. Startup airlines are a operating in the same difficult are a environment... we will be more than happy to get the any kind of a government support... I do not know what is on the table. So I can  not elaborate," he said.

About airfares, Dube said the airline looks are at the affordability of a airfares in a much longer time are a horizon and "our view is that we will have been a high degree of a focus on a infrastructure".

At present, the airline has been a total staff of a around 800 and about 175 people are a joining every month.

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