{"id":300013,"date":"2019-11-08T11:07:43","date_gmt":"2019-11-08T05:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=300013"},"modified":"2019-11-08T11:07:43","modified_gmt":"2019-11-08T05:37:43","slug":"after-code-share-qatar-wants-to-board-indigo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/after-code-share-qatar-wants-to-board-indigo\/","title":{"rendered":"After code share, Qatar wants to board IndiGo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Qatar Airways on Thursday reiterated its interest in picking up a stake in InterGlobe Aviation Ltd-owned IndiGo, India\u2019s largest domestic airline, but said it does not want to take part in the privatization of flag carrier Air India Ltd.<\/p>\n<p>Qatar Airways\u2019 plan will be a blow to the Indian government\u2019s renewed efforts to privatize debt-laden Air India. A similar effort in 2018 failed to attract even a single bidder.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are very keen to take a stake in IndiGo but I don\u2019t think this is the right time,&#8221; Qatar Airways group chief executive Akbar Al Baker said at a news conference to announce a code-share agreement with IndiGo. \u201cWe would like to expand our relationship with IndiGo. There is some disagreement within the airline (promoter feud), so we will not like to comment on our future plans for IndiGo till these issues are resolved.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Qatar Airways on Thursday reiterated its interest in picking up a stake in InterGlobe Aviation Ltd-owned IndiGo, India\u2019s largest domestic airline, but said it does not want to take part in the privatization of flag carrier Air India Ltd. Qatar Airways\u2019 plan will be a blow to the Indian government\u2019s renewed efforts to privatize debt-laden Air India. A similar effort in 2018 failed to attract even a single bidder. \u201cWe are very keen to take a stake in IndiGo but I don\u2019t think this is the right time,&#8221; Qatar Airways group chief executive Akbar Al Baker said at a news [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[188,139,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-300013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300013","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}