{"id":293656,"date":"2019-09-25T11:33:37","date_gmt":"2019-09-25T06:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=293656"},"modified":"2019-09-25T11:33:37","modified_gmt":"2019-09-25T06:03:37","slug":"spicejet-plans-to-buy-100-airbus-planes-worth-13-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/spicejet-plans-to-buy-100-airbus-planes-worth-13-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"SpiceJet plans to buy 100 Airbus planes, worth $13 billion"},"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&#8221; 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,&#8221; Singh said in an interview at Bloomberg\u2019s headquarters in New York. \u201cThey have made us a commercial offer and we are evaluating it.&#8221;<\/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&#8221; 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":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[188,139,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-293656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293656","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=293656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}