{"id":296329,"date":"2019-10-16T10:08:46","date_gmt":"2019-10-16T04:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=296329"},"modified":"2019-10-16T10:11:37","modified_gmt":"2019-10-16T04:41:37","slug":"air-india-becomes-the-first-to-use-taxibot-on-commercial-airbus-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/air-india-becomes-the-first-to-use-taxibot-on-commercial-airbus-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"Air India becomes the first to use Taxibot on commercial Airbus flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Air India on Tuesday became the first airline in the world to use a Taxibot on a A320 aircraft with passengers onboard. <\/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&#8217;s Chairman and Managing Director Ashwani Lohani flagged off flight AI665 &#8211; which was carried to runway using Taxibot at terminal 3 of the Delhi airport &#8211; 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. <\/p>\n<p>It is a pilot controlled semi-robotic towbarless 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 onboard. 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&#8217;s Chairman and Managing Director Ashwani Lohani flagged off flight AI665 &#8211; which was carried to runway using Taxibot at terminal 3 of the Delhi airport &#8211; 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":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-296329","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\/296329","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=296329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}