Low-cost carrier AirAsia India is currently in talks with the management
of Mumbai International Airport Ltd (MIAL) to start operations from
country’s most congested yet important airport in the city.
Though the airline management is very keen to connect their network with financial capital Mumbai, there is nothing concrete as of now, claim the sources.
When asked about the development, Amar Abrol, managing director and CEO of AirAsia India, said that it was not that they did not want to come to Mumbai, but it was about when.
Kiran Jain, director - commercial, AirAsia India, when asked about the ongoing talks between the airline and Mial over slot availability, said, “I can not talk about it now.”
Though AirAsia initially remained away from the highly-congested airports of Delhi and Mumbai, the airline finally announced operations from the national capital in March 2015. The reason for starting flights from Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) was that it is a comparatively less congested, and therefore, there’s more availability of slots for the airlines.
This is not the first time that AirAsia might be looking at starting services from Mumbai.
In September 2015, AirAsia’s group chief executive Tony Fernandes had announced the flight from Mumbai with a tweet, “We are coming.”
To Read the News in Full 09/02/17 Shahkar Abidi/DNA
Though the airline management is very keen to connect their network with financial capital Mumbai, there is nothing concrete as of now, claim the sources.
When asked about the development, Amar Abrol, managing director and CEO of AirAsia India, said that it was not that they did not want to come to Mumbai, but it was about when.
Kiran Jain, director - commercial, AirAsia India, when asked about the ongoing talks between the airline and Mial over slot availability, said, “I can not talk about it now.”
Though AirAsia initially remained away from the highly-congested airports of Delhi and Mumbai, the airline finally announced operations from the national capital in March 2015. The reason for starting flights from Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) was that it is a comparatively less congested, and therefore, there’s more availability of slots for the airlines.
This is not the first time that AirAsia might be looking at starting services from Mumbai.
In September 2015, AirAsia’s group chief executive Tony Fernandes had announced the flight from Mumbai with a tweet, “We are coming.”
To Read the News in Full 09/02/17 Shahkar Abidi/DNA
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