{"id":299721,"date":"2019-11-06T12:34:44","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T07:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=299721"},"modified":"2019-11-06T12:43:20","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T07:13:20","slug":"indigo-qatar-airways-to-announce-strategic-deal-on-november-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indigo-qatar-airways-to-announce-strategic-deal-on-november-7\/","title":{"rendered":"IndiGo, Qatar Airways to announce strategic deal on November 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s largest airline IndiGo and Qatar Airways will make a strategic business announcement on November 7, the two companies said in a statement on Tuesday, sending shares of the budget carrier higher by as much as 4 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>Qatar has in the past shown interest in investing in IndiGo but the Indian airline has resisted. \u201cWe 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,\u201d 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 \u201cnot yet ready to take a foreign investor\u201d. \u201cWhen it is ready, Qatar will be interested,\u201d he had said at the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s largest airline IndiGo and Qatar Airways will make a strategic business announcement on November 7, the two companies said in a statement on Tuesday, sending shares of the budget carrier higher by as much as 4 per cent. Qatar has in the past shown interest in investing in IndiGo but the Indian airline has resisted. \u201cWe 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,\u201d 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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-299721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299721","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=299721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}