{"id":301865,"date":"2019-11-20T12:34:16","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T07:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=301865"},"modified":"2019-11-20T12:48:20","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T07:18:20","slug":"signed-intent-letter-for-30-boeing-737-max-air-astana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/signed-intent-letter-for-30-boeing-737-max-air-astana\/","title":{"rendered":"Signed intent letter for 30 Boeing 737 MAX: Air Astana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kazakhstan flag carrier Air Astana said on Tuesday it had signed a letter of intent to order 30 Boeing 737 MAX for its recently launched low-cost carrier subsidiary FlyArystan. <\/p>\n<p>The carrier, which operates Airbus and Embraer jets in its main network, said it was confident in Boeing&#8217;s ability to resolve problems over the grounding of the MAX in the wake of two accidents. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are making flying affordable for the people of Kazakhstan,&#8221; Chief Planning Officer Alma Aliguzhinova told reporters at the Dubai Airshow, adding the budget subsidiary would start taking the jets in late 2021. <\/p>\n<p>The airline plans to hold 15 aircraft directly and may finance the rest through a lease transaction, she said, adding Air Astana would not change the composition of its main fleet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kazakhstan flag carrier Air Astana said on Tuesday it had signed a letter of intent to order 30 Boeing 737 MAX for its recently launched low-cost carrier subsidiary FlyArystan. The carrier, which operates Airbus and Embraer jets in its main network, said it was confident in Boeing&#8217;s ability to resolve problems over the grounding of the MAX in the wake of two accidents. &#8220;We are making flying affordable for the people of Kazakhstan,&#8221; Chief Planning Officer Alma Aliguzhinova told reporters at the Dubai Airshow, adding the budget subsidiary would start taking the jets in late 2021. The airline plans to [&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":[176,146,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-301865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301865","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=301865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}