New : - Akasa Air adds 29th city and sixth international destination to its network - To start daily Phuket flights from Mumbai entering Southeast Asia from 20th Sept ✈️

New : - @FlySpiceJet to wet lease five more The Boeing Company 737s for winter season - Taking wet-leased planes to 10 that will come from Oct and stay till May - Says in talks for more wet-leased planes ps: employees saying july salaries still not paid. hope soon. ✈️

New: -Star Air gets 11th plane - an @Embraer E175 - The 88-seater flew Bydgoszcz - Cairo - Muscat and then landed in a rainy Bengaluru - Star will now offer some 350 weekly flights on its network ✈️

When @IndiGo6e opened its office in Gujarat's GIFT City it looked like just another ribbon-cutting But scratch deeper, & a bigger play emerges What is it? What's incoming? And what reforms are set to be unleashed? My #deepdive in Economic Times today: economictimes.indiatimes.com/prime/transpor…

IndiGo's new GIFT City office: Strategic expansion or something more? Tarun Shukla decodes the airline's move. #IndiGo #GIFTcity tinyurl.com/26c8kr3m

In a world where airlines are paying such obnoxious rentals to secure planes, it is quite sad to see @JetAirways' The Boeing Company 777s Airbus A330s stuffed in a Mumbai Airport corner Dusty & possibly rusty Since taxpayer money is involved State Bank of India should act. Now. ✈️

Just in : - Wipro's Azim Premji is now an investor in Akasa Air through his investment arm together w/ 360 One Asset, Claypond Capital & (late) Rakesh Jhunjhunwala - Airline says has got all "regulatory approvals" & welcomes its new "partners to Akasian family" ✈️

Just in : - India and China set to resume direct flights again - @AirIndia flew Delhi - Shanghai non-stop before 2020 when covid hit and then Galwan clash happened - IndiGo too had flights to Guangzhou and Chegdu from Kolkata ✈️

Basically: - Air India Express made a loss of Rs 6000 crore in 2024-25 has a debt of Rs 600 cr - @AirIndia Rs 4000 cr loss/Rs 27000 cr debt - Akasa Air Rs 2000 cr/Rs 80 cr - SpiceJet Rs 600 cr/900 cr - IndiGo made a Rs 7600 cr profit/Rs 67000 cr debt per MoCA_GoI ✈️

Foriegn minister Dr. S. Jaishankar says India has both supply side & demand side challenge right now "Don't depend on a single market, diversify" is impt & w/ regards to China, "there is a ground in between" China flights, for eg., been in works for months #ETWLF2025 #ETWLF