Right time for Akasa Air to take advantage of market recovery, says Boeing India’s Salil Gupte

The year is ending on a good note for Boeing India. Their Max aircraft is all set to regain skies after nearly three years of grounding. Boeing has also inked agreement with India's youngest airline Akasa Air for 72 Max airplanes.

Speaking to CNBC-TV18, Salil Gupte, the President of Boeing India, said, “We believe that the market here is recovering. You saw just a few weeks ago, on a Sunday, the passenger footfall surpassed the equivalent level of 2019, pre-COVID. That is an indicator that this market is going to recover as strongly as we thought, even with the second wave, and therefore a start-up carrier like Akasa Air is coming in, in an ideal time to take advantage of that recovery.”