{"id":296496,"date":"2019-10-16T12:52:25","date_gmt":"2019-10-16T07:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=296496"},"modified":"2019-10-16T13:00:20","modified_gmt":"2019-10-16T07:30:20","slug":"air-india-becomes-first-airline-to-use-taxibot-on-a320-aircraft-with-passengers-onboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/air-india-becomes-first-airline-to-use-taxibot-on-a320-aircraft-with-passengers-onboard\/","title":{"rendered":"Air India becomes first airline to use Taxibot on A320 aircraft with passengers onboard"},"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":[212,130,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-296496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-pioneer","category-newspapers","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296496","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=296496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}