{"id":296387,"date":"2019-10-16T11:36:34","date_gmt":"2019-10-16T06:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=296387"},"modified":"2019-10-16T11:45:18","modified_gmt":"2019-10-16T06:15:18","slug":"air-india-first-in-the-world-to-use-taxibot-on-a-commercial-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/air-india-first-in-the-world-to-use-taxibot-on-a-commercial-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"Air India first in the world to use Taxibot on a commercial flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Air India became the first airline in the world to use a Taxibot on A320 aircraft with passengers onboard. <\/p>\n<p>What is Taxibot? <\/p>\n<p>Taxibot is a robot-used aircraft tractor for taxiing an aircraft from parking bay to runway and vice versa. It is a pilot-controlled semi-robotic towbarless aircraft tractor used as alternate taxiing equipment. <\/p>\n<p>Lohani flagged off the flight <\/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 the 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Air India became the first airline in the world to use a Taxibot on A320 aircraft with passengers onboard. What is Taxibot? Taxibot is a robot-used aircraft tractor for taxiing an aircraft from parking bay to runway and vice versa. It is a pilot-controlled semi-robotic towbarless aircraft tractor used as alternate taxiing equipment. Lohani flagged off the flight On Tuesday morning, the national carrier&#8217;s Chairman and Managing Director Ashwani Lohani flagged off flight AI665 &#8211; which was carried to the runway using Taxibot at terminal 3 of the Delhi airport &#8211; to Mumbai. With Taxibot it is possible to tow [&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-296387","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\/296387","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=296387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}