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Jul 2022
39m 4s

On Air with the Akasa Boys

THE ECONOMIC TIMES
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Vinay Dube and Aditya Ghosh, the men piloting Rakesh Jhunjhunwala’s Akasa Air, have a tough task at hand: high costs, ruthless competition and a Covid overhang await the airline that got its flying permit last week. But the Akasa boys, former CEOs of Jet Airways and IndiGo, are dreaming big. In a candid, fun chat with host Anirban Chowdhury, they tell the story of India’s latest airline startup and how they plan to make it fly.

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