# Project Baraka & the Art of LCC Warfare feat. Antony Fernandes (Head Network Planning & Revenue Optimization, Jazeera Airways)

An episode of [The Indian #AvGeek](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1759764345), 13 Jul 2026, 58 min.

Audio: https://anchor.fm/s/f945ecd8/podcast/play/122717085/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-6-12%2F165b3b1e-fd0e-0e10-c8f0-00fdbcc53948.mp3

Episode 73 of The Indian AvGeek features Antony Oliver Fernandes, Head - Network Planning & Revenue Optimization at Jazeera Airways, for a conversation that runs from the ambitious, wide-body dreams of Kingfisher Airlines to rebuilding an entire airline's network from scratch in a matter of days. ✈️ From Kingfisher Airlines' wide-body ambitions to yield management, and what that taught him before he ever landed in the Gulf ✈️ Building Jazeera Airways' network thesis inside a market with no hub ambitions, a protected national carrier like Kuwait Airways, and tight bilateral and slot constraints ✈️ Inside Project Baraka: rebuilding Jazeera's network in a neighbouring market after the airspace shutdown, and whether it is a repeatable crisis playbook ✈️ Why the A320neo made the tight margins of Project Baraka viable, and what the A321XLR means for the long haul LCC debate ✈️ Competing with IndiGo, Air Arabia & flydubai as the smaller carrier on overlapping routes ✈️ Tug of war between revenue teams chasing proven yield and network planners betting on long term portfolio value ✈️ How pax behaviour on a migrant heavy corridor like Dhaka differs from a business leisure market like Kuwait, and what that does to scheduling and pricing ✈️ Where AI and forecasting tools end and human judgement in network planning still wins The Indian AvGeek streams on all podcast apps. Vishal on X - @vishal1mehra

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