{"id":288678,"date":"2019-08-26T06:08:28","date_gmt":"2019-08-26T06:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=288678"},"modified":"2019-08-26T06:08:28","modified_gmt":"2019-08-26T06:08:28","slug":"air-india-hasnt-paid-in-200-days-owes-rs-4500-cr-in-dues-oil-cos-tell-why-fuel-supply-was-snapped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/air-india-hasnt-paid-in-200-days-owes-rs-4500-cr-in-dues-oil-cos-tell-why-fuel-supply-was-snapped\/","title":{"rendered":"Air India hasn\u2019t paid in 200 days, owes Rs 4,500 cr in dues; oil cos tell why fuel supply was snapped"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Air India owes three state-owned oil firms close to Rs 4,500 crore in unpaid fuel bills with payments being delayed by almost seven months, forcing retailers to snap supplies, senior officials said on Friday. Indian Oil Corp (IOC), Bharat Petroleum Corp Ltd (BPCL) and Hindustan Petroleum Corp Ltd (HPCL) on Thursday afternoon stopped jet fuel or ATF supplies to Air India at six airports \u2013 Kochi, Pune, Patna, Ranchi, Vizag and Mohali \u2013 over payment defaults.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAir India has a 90 day credit period, which means they have to make payment for fuel they buy today by November 21. But Air India had not been making payments and the credit period was now over 200 days,\u201d a senior official at one of the three state-owned oil firms said.<\/p>\n<p>Total unpaid dues to three fuel retailers stand at close to Rs 4,500 crore. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Air India owes three state-owned oil firms close to Rs 4,500 crore in unpaid fuel bills with payments being delayed by almost seven months, forcing retailers to snap supplies, senior officials said on Friday. Indian Oil Corp (IOC), Bharat Petroleum Corp Ltd (BPCL) and Hindustan Petroleum Corp Ltd (HPCL) on Thursday afternoon stopped jet fuel or ATF supplies to Air India at six airports \u2013 Kochi, Pune, Patna, Ranchi, Vizag and Mohali \u2013 over payment defaults. \u201cAir India has a 90 day credit period, which means they have to make payment for fuel they buy today by November 21. But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[196,130,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-288678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288678","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}