{"id":267732,"date":"2019-04-03T05:31:18","date_gmt":"2019-04-03T05:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=267732"},"modified":"2019-04-03T05:31:18","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T05:31:18","slug":"plane-truth-bjp-ahead-in-2019s-campaign-airpower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/plane-truth-bjp-ahead-in-2019s-campaign-airpower\/","title":{"rendered":"Plane truth: BJP ahead in 2019\u2019s campaign airpower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Here are the plane truths about Elections 2019 \u2014 BJP\u2019s hired fleet of aircraft and helicopters is the highest ever in Indian poll campaign history, Congress is flying a somewhat distant second in terms of wings hired, and most others are way behind. <\/p>\n<p>People familiar with the business told ET that BJP has hired a fleet 20 helicopters and 12 business jets. In contrast, Congress has hired 10 helicopters and 4 business jets. These people spoke off record. <\/p>\n<p>Hiring wings is a high-cost business. And BJP has opted for the more expensive options. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Here are the plane truths about Elections 2019 \u2014 BJP\u2019s hired fleet of aircraft and helicopters is the highest ever in Indian poll campaign history, Congress is flying a somewhat distant second in terms of wings hired, and most others are way behind. People familiar with the business told ET that BJP has hired a fleet 20 helicopters and 12 business jets. In contrast, Congress has hired 10 helicopters and 4 business jets. These people spoke off record. Hiring wings is a high-cost business. And BJP has opted for the more expensive options.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,130,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-267732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}