National, August 6, 2026: Café Akasa, the onboard meal service of Akasa Air, is celebrating the Parsi New Year with the second edition of its Navroz Special Meal, inviting travellers to experience the distinctive flavours of Parsi cuisine in the skies. The meal features Parsi Chicken Kheema Pie served with a Patra nu Chicken Salad, Saffron Rice Pudding, and a beverage of your choice.
Available throughout August 2026, this meal can also be prebooked on Akasa Air’s website or mobile app.
Navroz meaning “new day,” is a festival associated with renewal, gratitude, and togetherness with food playing a central role in celebrations.
Inspired by traditional Parsi culinary heritage, the menu has been thoughtfully crafted to bring the spirit of Navroz onboard, allowing customers to savour an authentic taste of the festivities while they travel.
With specially curated limited-edition menus introduced throughout the year, Café Akasa continues to enrich the onboard experience by celebrating seasonal moments and evolving customer preferences, ensuring there is something new to look forward to every time they fly.
Since launching operations in August 2022, Akasa Air has been committed to offering specially curated meal options that reflect regional specialties associated with various celebrations. From Makar Sankranti to Valentine’s Day, Holi, Eid, Easter, Mother’s Day, International Yoga Day, Navroz, Onam, Ganesh Chaturthi, Dussehra, Diwali, Children’s Day and Christmas, Café Akasa continues to enhance the flying experience with festive meals. The airline also offers a pre-selection of cakes on its regular menu for flyers who want to celebrate special occasions with their loved ones in the skies.
Café Akasa’s frequently refreshed menu is thoughtfully curated to include a variety of gourmet meals, snacks, and refreshing beverages, ensuring there is something to cater to a wide range of dietary and culinary preferences. The menu offers 45+ meal options, including fusion meals, appetisers with a regional twist, and decadent desserts, all exclusively curated by reputed chefs from across India.
About Café Akasa
Discover fusion, hearty and wholesome, never-before-seen dishes in the skies with Café Akasa, Akasa Air’s onboard meal service. Café Akasa presents thoughtfully curated meal options, with health conscious choices, all-day dining flexibility, indulgent treats, and global flavours – designed for today’s modern traveller. It offers a mix of gourmet meals, snacks, beverages, and ready-to-eat options, designed to cater to every palate. The menu includes a wide assortment of options comprising light meals and regional favourites. Akasa Air also offers a cake on its regular menu for those who want to celebrate special occasions while flying.
The Akasa Experience
Akasa Air’s empathetic and youthful personality, employee-friendly culture, customer-service philosophy, and tech-led approach have made it the airline of choice for millions of customers. Its brand new fleet provides ample legroom and comes with USB ports in the majority of aircraft. Café Akasa, the airline’s onboard meal service, offers an assortment of healthy and delectable meals. Pets on Akasa allows customers to travel with their pets in the cabin or to carry them in cargo. Akasa Air offers over 25+ ancillary products such as Akasa GetEarly, Seat & Meal Deal, Extra Seat and Akasa Holidays, to deliver on its promise of exceptional customer service. Consistently enhancing the cabin experience for its customers, Akasa has launched several industry-firsts such as SkyScore by Akasa, SkyLights and QuietFlights. Akasa Air has introduced its safety instruction card and onboard menu card in Braille for people with visual impairment.
About Akasa Air:
Akasa Air is India’s most dependable airline, offering warm and efficient customer service, reliable operations, and affordable fares – all in the Akasa Way. Akasa’s youthful personality, employee-centric philosophy, tech-led approach, and culture of service make this commitment a reality for all Indians.
Akasa Air’s consistent on-time leadership, operational efficiencies and extremely positive customer feedback have made it a preferred carrier in India, serving over 29 million passengers since its launch in August 2022. Akasa Air currently connects with 29 domestic and seven international cities, namely Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Chennai, Kochi, Delhi, Guwahati, Agartala, Pune, Lucknow, Goa, Hyderabad, Varanasi, Bagdogra, Bhubaneswar, Kolkata, Sri Vijaya Puram, Ayodhya, Gwalior, Srinagar, Prayagraj, Gorakhpur, Darbhanga, Kozhikode, Navi Mumbai, Dibrugarh, Noida, Udaipur, Jaipur, Doha (Qatar), Jeddah, Riyadh (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia), Abu Dhabi (UAE), Kuwait City (Kuwait), Phuket (Thailand), and Hanoi (Vietnam).
With a clear focus on sustained, long-term growth, Akasa Air has placed a firm order of 226 Boeing 737 MAX airplanes, powered by CFM fuel-efficient LEAP-1B engines. It currently operates 40 737 MAX aircraft, which deliver superior efficiency in reducing fuel use and carbon emissions. The aircraft also has a quieter cabin with 40 per cent less noise, fulfilling the airline’s promise of being an environmentally progressive company with the youngest and greenest fleet in the Indian skies.
