{"id":296263,"date":"2019-10-15T12:53:18","date_gmt":"2019-10-15T07:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=296263"},"modified":"2019-10-15T12:53:18","modified_gmt":"2019-10-15T07:23:18","slug":"air-india-becomes-first-airline-to-use-taxibot-on-a320-aircraft-with-passengers-on-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/air-india-becomes-first-airline-to-use-taxibot-on-a320-aircraft-with-passengers-on-board\/","title":{"rendered":"Air India becomes first airline to use Taxibot on A320 aircraft with passengers on-board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Air India on Tuesday became the first airline in the world to use a Taxibot on a A320 aircraft with passengers on-board.<\/p>\n<p>Taxibot is a robot-used aircraft tractor for taxiing an aircraft from parking bay to runway and vice versa.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday morning, the national carrier\u2019s Chairman and Managing Director Ashwani Lohani flagged off flight AI665 \u2014 which was carried to runway using Taxibot at terminal 3 of the Delhi airport \u2014 to Mumbai. <\/p>\n<p>With Taxibot, it is possible to tow an aircraft from the parking bay to the runway with its engines switched off. It is a pilot controlled semi-robotic towbar-less aircraft tractor, used as an alternate taxiing equipment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Air India on Tuesday became the first airline in the world to use a Taxibot on a A320 aircraft with passengers on-board. Taxibot is a robot-used aircraft tractor for taxiing an aircraft from parking bay to runway and vice versa. On Tuesday morning, the national carrier\u2019s Chairman and Managing Director Ashwani Lohani flagged off flight AI665 \u2014 which was carried to runway using Taxibot at terminal 3 of the Delhi airport \u2014 to Mumbai. With Taxibot, it is possible to tow an aircraft from the parking bay to the runway with its engines switched off. It is a pilot controlled [&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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-296263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296263","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=296263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}