{"id":299618,"date":"2019-11-06T10:19:51","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T04:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=299618"},"modified":"2019-11-06T10:24:44","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T04:54:44","slug":"indigo-to-announce-strategic-deal-with-qatar-airways-shares-up-around-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indigo-to-announce-strategic-deal-with-qatar-airways-shares-up-around-2\/","title":{"rendered":"IndiGo to announce strategic deal with Qatar Airways, shares up around 2%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s largest airline IndiGo and Qatar Airways will make a strategic business announcement on Nov 7, the two companies said in a statement on Tuesday, sending shares of the budget carrier higher by as much as 2%. <\/p>\n<p>Qatar has in the past shown interest in investing in IndiGo but the Indian airline has resisted. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are very interested in IndiGo &#8230; We are talking to IndiGo of doing codeshare, joint flights but not yet an equity stake in the airline,&#8221; Qatar Airways CEO Akbar Al Baker told Reuters in an interview in August. <\/p>\n<p>Baker said they had talked to IndiGo but the airline was &#8220;not yet ready to take a foreign investor&#8221;. When it is ready, Qatar will be interested, he had said at the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s largest airline IndiGo and Qatar Airways will make a strategic business announcement on Nov 7, the two companies said in a statement on Tuesday, sending shares of the budget carrier higher by as much as 2%. Qatar has in the past shown interest in investing in IndiGo but the Indian airline has resisted. &#8220;We are very interested in IndiGo &#8230; We are talking to IndiGo of doing codeshare, joint flights but not yet an equity stake in the airline,&#8221; Qatar Airways CEO Akbar Al Baker told Reuters in an interview in August. Baker said they had talked to IndiGo [&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-299618","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\/299618","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=299618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}