{"id":296462,"date":"2019-10-16T12:37:28","date_gmt":"2019-10-16T07:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=296462"},"modified":"2019-10-16T12:42:35","modified_gmt":"2019-10-16T07:12:35","slug":"air-india-is-worlds-1st-carrier-to-use-taxibot-on-flight-with-passengers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/air-india-is-worlds-1st-carrier-to-use-taxibot-on-flight-with-passengers\/","title":{"rendered":"Air India is world\u2019s 1st carrier to use TaxiBot on flight with passengers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Air India has become the first global airline to use a TaxiBot or a taxiing robot to tow an Airbus A-320 commercial flight with passengers on board. <\/p>\n<p>A TaxiBot is a pilot controlled semi-robotic tow bar-less aircraft tractor used as an alternative taxiing equipment. <\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, the Air India Delhi-Mumbai flight 665 used a TaxiBot to tow it to the runway. <\/p>\n<p>It tows the aircraft from the parking bay to the runway with the plane\u2019s engines shut. <\/p>\n<p>This helps protect the environment as a Boeing 737 or Airbus A-320 aircraft can take up to 11 to 13 minutes to taxi when it is likely to burn over 200 litres of aviation turbine fuel (ATF). <\/p>\n<p>According to Air India, using TaxiBots will bring down the consumption of fuel by as much as 85 per cent during taxiing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Air India has become the first global airline to use a TaxiBot or a taxiing robot to tow an Airbus A-320 commercial flight with passengers on board. A TaxiBot is a pilot controlled semi-robotic tow bar-less aircraft tractor used as an alternative taxiing equipment. On Tuesday, the Air India Delhi-Mumbai flight 665 used a TaxiBot to tow it to the runway. It tows the aircraft from the parking bay to the runway with the plane\u2019s engines shut. This helps protect the environment as a Boeing 737 or Airbus A-320 aircraft can take up to 11 to 13 minutes to taxi [&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-296462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296462","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=296462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}