{"id":295803,"date":"2019-10-11T12:41:57","date_gmt":"2019-10-11T07:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=295803"},"modified":"2019-10-11T12:41:57","modified_gmt":"2019-10-11T07:11:57","slug":"sale-bound-air-india-subsidiary-gets-nod-to-launch-foreign-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/sale-bound-air-india-subsidiary-gets-nod-to-launch-foreign-operations\/","title":{"rendered":"Sale-bound Air India subsidiary gets nod to launch foreign operations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Civil Aviation Ministry has approved Alliance Air plan to launch foreign operations by starting flights to Sri Lanka even as the airline\u2019s parent Air India remains on top of the government\u2019s 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\u2019s often repeated argument that \u201cgovernment has no business to be in airline business.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe move suggests government would not sell Alliance Air and continue in airline business. Alliance Air could be an \u201cIndian Airlines\u201d in the making. We are unable to understand then why Air India is being sold,\u201d said an executive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Civil Aviation Ministry has approved Alliance Air plan to launch foreign operations by starting flights to Sri Lanka even as the airline\u2019s parent Air India remains on top of the government\u2019s 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\u2019s often repeated argument that \u201cgovernment has no business to be in airline business.\u201d \u201cThe move suggests government would not sell Alliance Air and continue in airline business. Alliance Air could be an \u201cIndian Airlines\u201d in the making. We are [&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":[184,141,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-295803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-hindustantimes","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295803","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=295803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}