Fledgling airline Akasa Air on Thursday announced a firm order of 150 Boeing 737 MAX family planes, taking its total order size for the aircraft to 226. The 17-month-old airline currently has 22 737 MAX aircraft in its fleet. With this order, Akasa Air became the third Indian player to have placed a triple-digit aircraft order in the past year.
The order announcement comes at a time when Boeing, particularly its 737 MAX family of planes, is grappling with scrutiny following the recent mid-flight cabin plug door blowout incident on an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 MAX-9 aircraft in the United States. Akasa Air’s earlier and new order does not include any MAX-9 variants. In fact, no Indian carrier currently operates or even plans to operate the MAX-9 variant of the aircraft, which suffered the plug door blowout. Top Akasa Air executives said that they have full faith and confidence in Boeing and the 737 MAX variants—MAX-8 and MAX-10—that the airline has on order.
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