{"id":273192,"date":"2019-05-06T11:35:22","date_gmt":"2019-05-06T11:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=273192"},"modified":"2019-05-06T11:35:22","modified_gmt":"2019-05-06T11:35:22","slug":"air-india-wont-take-b777s-from-jet-airways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/air-india-wont-take-b777s-from-jet-airways\/","title":{"rendered":"Air India won&#8217;t take B777s from Jet Airways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>State-run Air India has decided not to pursue its plan to take B777s from grounded Jet Airways as it has found it commercially unviable given their huge maintenance requirement. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The engineering unit has done the work around the B777s and found no merit in taking them,&#8221; said an airline executive. <\/p>\n<p>A few weeks back, Air India had shown keen interest to take 5 wide-body Boeing 777aircraft of Jet Airways on dry\/wet lease and initiated talks with the crisis-hit airline&#8217;s lead lender SBI. <\/p>\n<p>Air India Chairman Ashwani Lohani had discussed the proposal with SBI Chairman Rajnish Kumar.<\/p>\n<p>But now that Air India has changed its decision, SBI seems to have a plan B for the grounded long-haul planes. An internal Jet Airways mail has revealed that one of the B777 jets is scheduled for maintenance ferry to Hong Kong on May 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State-run Air India has decided not to pursue its plan to take B777s from grounded Jet Airways as it has found it commercially unviable given their huge maintenance requirement. &#8220;The engineering unit has done the work around the B777s and found no merit in taking them,&#8221; said an airline executive. A few weeks back, Air India had shown keen interest to take 5 wide-body Boeing 777aircraft of Jet Airways on dry\/wet lease and initiated talks with the crisis-hit airline&#8217;s lead lender SBI. Air India Chairman Ashwani Lohani had discussed the proposal with SBI Chairman Rajnish Kumar. But now that Air [&hellip;]<\/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":[229],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273192","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=273192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}