Akasa Air on Saturday commenced operations on the Chennai-Bengaluru route, making Chennai the fifth city on its network. There will be two flights daily on the route. Apart from this, the airline also plans to start services on the Chennai-Kochi route from September 26.
According to a company statement, “Further expanding its operations from Chennai, the airline will introduce an additional daily flight on the Mumbai-Chennai route from September 15 and add an additional daily flight on the Bengaluru-Chennai route from September 26.”
akasa air The new route between Chennai and Bengaluru was announced on Twitter on Friday. The company’s tweet read, “Connecting the Cultural Capital of South India with the IT Capital of India!”
Praveen Iyer, Co-Founder, Akasa Air, said, “We have achieved another milestone today with the commencement of commercial flights from Chennai, the fifth city in our network.”
“From today, we will be providing twice daily flights in each direction on this new route,” Chief Commercial Officer Iyer said.
The company’s statement further read, “These rapid expansion of cities, routes and frequencies is in line with the airlines’ vision to adopt a phased but rapid approach to develop the network across the country.”
akasa air start On 7 August this year, Union Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia flagged off the first flight from Mumbai to Ahmedabad.
(with inputs from PTI)
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