{"id":302946,"date":"2019-11-26T13:07:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-26T07:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=302946"},"modified":"2019-11-26T13:07:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T07:37:00","slug":"dgca-tells-indigo-efforts-to-fix-neo-engines-inadequate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/dgca-tells-indigo-efforts-to-fix-neo-engines-inadequate\/","title":{"rendered":"DGCA tells IndiGo efforts to fix Neo engines inadequate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s aviation regulator on Monday warned IndiGo that the airline\u2019s efforts to modify the glitch-prone older Pratt &amp; Whitney (PW) engines installed on Airbus A320Neo aircraft were not satisfactory. This means a significant portion of IndiGo\u2019s fleet could be grounded if the carrier fails to meet a January 31 deadline. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe may find ourselves in a situation in which we remain saddled with a large number of aircraft with unmodified engines and operating on a schedule approved by us,\u201d the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) said.<\/p>\n<p>However, DGCA said that the grounding of aircraft would be a sub-optimal solution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s aviation regulator on Monday warned IndiGo that the airline\u2019s efforts to modify the glitch-prone older Pratt &amp; Whitney (PW) engines installed on Airbus A320Neo aircraft were not satisfactory. This means a significant portion of IndiGo\u2019s fleet could be grounded if the carrier fails to meet a January 31 deadline. \u201cWe may find ourselves in a situation in which we remain saddled with a large number of aircraft with unmodified engines and operating on a schedule approved by us,\u201d the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) said. However, DGCA said that the grounding of aircraft would be a sub-optimal solution.<\/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":[184,141,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-302946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-hindustantimes","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302946","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=302946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}