{"id":293568,"date":"2019-09-25T10:17:02","date_gmt":"2019-09-25T04:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=293568"},"modified":"2019-09-25T10:17:02","modified_gmt":"2019-09-25T04:47:02","slug":"spicejet-mulls-buying-100-airbus-jets-after-boeing-737-max-fallout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/spicejet-mulls-buying-100-airbus-jets-after-boeing-737-max-fallout\/","title":{"rendered":"SpiceJet mulls buying 100 Airbus jets after Boeing 737 MAX fallout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s SpiceJet Ltd. is weighing an order for at least 100 Airbus SE planes as Boeing Co. grapples with the fallout over its grounded 737 Max. <\/p>\n<p>The budget carrier, a major global customer for the Max, may buy a \u201csizable\u201d number of Airbus A321LR and XLR jets to accommodate a planned expansion, SpiceJet Chairman Ajay Singh said Tuesday. No decision has been made, he said, and the airline would consider a competing midrange jetliner if Boeing decides to build one. <\/p>\n<p>Airbus has \u201cpushed us hard since the day we started flying Boeing aircraft, and of course with the current problems, they\u2019ve pushed us harder,\u201d Singh said in an interview at Bloomberg\u2019s headquarters in New York. \u201cThey have made us a commercial offer and we are evaluating it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s SpiceJet Ltd. is weighing an order for at least 100 Airbus SE planes as Boeing Co. grapples with the fallout over its grounded 737 Max. The budget carrier, a major global customer for the Max, may buy a \u201csizable\u201d number of Airbus A321LR and XLR jets to accommodate a planned expansion, SpiceJet Chairman Ajay Singh said Tuesday. No decision has been made, he said, and the airline would consider a competing midrange jetliner if Boeing decides to build one. Airbus has \u201cpushed us hard since the day we started flying Boeing aircraft, and of course with the current problems, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-293568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293568","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}