Akasa Air will commence operations at Navi Mumbai airport with a hundred-plus weekly domestic departures, it said on Friday after signing a memorandum of understanding with the airport.
The Navi Mumbai airport is expected to open in August end but no date has been finalised yet.
Akasa Air will scale up its operations to 300-plus domestic and 50-plus international departures per week in the winter schedule providing additional air connectivity to Mumbai metropolitan region.
The airline has around 32 daily departures from Mumbai and those it will continue to maintain with no plans of any consolidation of operations. Akasa Air will focus on connecting tier-II cities from Navi Mumbai.
Future plans
“No airline in India will have a larger percentage of its fleet and operations based out of Navi Mumbai international airport than Akasa Air,” the airline’s Chief Executive Officer Vijay Dube said.
Dube said the partnership with Adani group-run Navi Mumbai airport supports the airline’s commitment to supplement existing capacities, unlock new demand centres and enable sustainable growth.
Akasa Air is the second airline to sign an MOU with Navi Mumbai airport after IndiGo which will be the first to start flights from the new airport. IndiGo will start with over 18 daily departures to fifteen cities from day one of the opening and later increase operations to 79 departures by November.