{"id":298705,"date":"2019-10-31T10:12:37","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T04:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=298705"},"modified":"2019-10-31T10:27:55","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T04:57:55","slug":"a-day-after-300-aircraft-airbus-deal-indigo-joins-global-airline-body-iata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/a-day-after-300-aircraft-airbus-deal-indigo-joins-global-airline-body-iata\/","title":{"rendered":"A day after 300-aircraft Airbus deal, IndiGo joins global airline body IATA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Budget carrier IndiGo on Wednesday announced that it has become a member of International Air Transport Association (IATA) which represents around 290 airlines across the world, comprising 82 per cent of global air traffic. <\/p>\n<p>The announcement came after IndiGo&#8217;s expansion of international flight operations this year wherein it connected India with countries such as Turkey, Vietnam, Myanmar and China. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With over 60 offices worldwide, IATA maintains relationships with governments and other industry stakeholders around the world, advocating on behalf of its members on key industry issues,&#8221; said a press statement by IndiGo. <\/p>\n<p>In March, SpiceJet became the first Indian low-cost carrier to take membership of the IATA. Less than three months later, its chairman and managing director Ajay Singh was elected to the board of global airlines body.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Budget carrier IndiGo on Wednesday announced that it has become a member of International Air Transport Association (IATA) which represents around 290 airlines across the world, comprising 82 per cent of global air traffic. The announcement came after IndiGo&#8217;s expansion of international flight operations this year wherein it connected India with countries such as Turkey, Vietnam, Myanmar and China. &#8220;With over 60 offices worldwide, IATA maintains relationships with governments and other industry stakeholders around the world, advocating on behalf of its members on key industry issues,&#8221; said a press statement by IndiGo. In March, SpiceJet became the first Indian low-cost [&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-298705","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\/298705","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=298705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}