{"id":295752,"date":"2019-10-11T11:21:44","date_gmt":"2019-10-11T05:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=295752"},"modified":"2019-10-11T11:28:23","modified_gmt":"2019-10-11T05:58:23","slug":"sale-bound-air-india-subsidiary-gets-nod-for-foreign-flights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/sale-bound-air-india-subsidiary-gets-nod-for-foreign-flights\/","title":{"rendered":"Sale-bound Air India subsidiary gets nod for foreign flights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Civil Aviation Ministry has approved Alliance Air plan to launch foreign operations by starting flights to Sri Lanka even as the airline&#8217;s parent Air India remains on top of the government&#8217;s disinvestment agenda.<\/p>\n<p>The move has triggered speculation among Air India employees that government may continue in airline business by not selling Alliance Air. This runs counter to the government&#8217;s often repeated argument that &#8220;government has no business to be in airline business.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The move suggests government would not sell Alliance Air and continue in airline business. Alliance Air could be an &#8220;Indian Airlines&#8221; in the making. We are unable to understand then why Air India is being sold,&#8221; said an executive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Civil Aviation Ministry has approved Alliance Air plan to launch foreign operations by starting flights to Sri Lanka even as the airline&#8217;s parent Air India remains on top of the government&#8217;s disinvestment agenda. The move has triggered speculation among Air India employees that government may continue in airline business by not selling Alliance Air. This runs counter to the government&#8217;s often repeated argument that &#8220;government has no business to be in airline business.&#8221; &#8220;The move suggests government would not sell Alliance Air and continue in airline business. Alliance Air could be an &#8220;Indian Airlines&#8221; in the making. [&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":[192,130,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-295752","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\/295752","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=295752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}