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Google News (Airlines) · 25 Jun 2026

Operating revenue rose 37% for the year to March 2026 on 30% capacity growth, with stage-adjusted RASK up 10%, CASK down 4%, EBITDAR margins up roughly 60% and load factors near 88% — reaching 25 million cumulative passengers faster than any prior Indian carrier, on a fleet held at 37–39 Boeing 737 MAX jets by delivery delays.

Industry lens

Does Boeing's delivery cadence over the next four to six quarters actually support Akasa's 30–40% growth guidance, and if seats arrive on schedule, do IndiGo and Air India defend share with capacity rather than yield, loosening the sticky-fare regime?

Also today

Air India’s launches Easy Connect operations; 11 more Indian cities to join the network soon - Live From A Lounge

The first hub-and-spoke 'Easy Connect' service launched from Varanasi, letting passengers check baggage through to a final international destination and clear immigration at origin before transiting Delhi as international travellers; eleven more spoke cities are slated, with onward connections to 17 international destinations within four hours of Delhi arrival.

Google News (Airlines)·25 Jun 2026

Design & Product

Config 2026 recap: New materials, new tools and a more expressive canvas

Six canvas additions were announced: code layers that turn any frame into editable React-backed code and clone GitHub repos onto the canvas, a native motion timeline exporting to CSS/React/MP4, AI-generated WebGPU shader fills and effects, prompt-built generative plugins, Weave AI image tools inside Design files, and an upgraded agent with reusable skills and connectors to Notion, GitHub and others — treating code as a design material equal to vectors.

Why it matters

By absorbing motion design, shader work, AI image editing and code execution onto one canvas, the tool collapses several separately purchased products and the design-to-engineering handoff into a single surface, which changes the build-versus-buy and tool-sprawl calculus for any product org standardised on it.

Industry lens

Do product teams actually adopt code layers as a shared design-engineering surface, or keep routing interactive work to standalone coding agents — the behaviour that decides whether the canvas absorbs the workflow or gets bypassed?

HeyDesigner·25 Jun 2026
Hospitality Net · 25 Jun 2026Personalization: hospitality’s most powerful driver of revenue growth

An Amadeus executive, citing the vendor's Travel Dreams 2026 research, argues travellers pay more when relevance is delivered consistently from the search-and-compare stage through in-stay service, framing AI-plus-connected-data personalisation as a direct lever on conversion, spend and repeat booking rather than a loyalty nicety.

If hotels can lift willingness-to-pay by recognising a guest's purpose and budget before booking, the value-creating moment moves upstream to whoever holds the guest data and the pre-stay surface — and a claim made by a major hospitality-tech supplier doubles as a pitch to keep that data and surface hotel-side rather than with the intermediary.

HeyDesigner · 25 Jun 2026Your design system's newest author is an agent

A follow-up to last year's 'agent as design-system reader' argument documents that agents now write to design systems — placing real components on the Figma canvas via use_figma, proposing and committing token changes through Storybook and Figma MCP servers, generating documentation, and even authoring the SKILL.md and DESIGN.md files that instruct them — removing the human translator between system and implementation.

Once agents author components, tokens and docs at machine speed, the load-bearing failure shifts from generation quality to review: the sign-off that used to sit between a change and what ships becomes nobody's explicit job, so teams need a review and provenance model built for probabilistic authorship before they widen agent write access.