{"id":303813,"date":"2019-12-02T12:21:16","date_gmt":"2019-12-02T06:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=303813"},"modified":"2019-12-02T12:21:16","modified_gmt":"2019-12-02T06:51:16","slug":"pilots-revving-engines-too-hard-led-to-indigos-airbus-woes-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/pilots-revving-engines-too-hard-led-to-indigos-airbus-woes-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Pilots revving engines too hard led to IndiGo\u2019s Airbus woes: report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IndiGo and Go Airlines India Ltd. use the same type of engine made by Pratt &amp; Whitney that\u2019s susceptible to mid-flight shutdowns. Yet IndiGo, one of Airbus SE\u2019s biggest customers, is the only one to encounter turbine failures this year, drawing heavy scrutiny from the aviation regulator. The reason could be linked to how the budget airline flies.<\/p>\n<p>Advertising<br \/>\nIndia\u2019s Directorate General of Civil Aviation told IndiGo\u2019s operator, InterGlobe Aviation Ltd., that its practice of revving A320neo jets at full thrust right after takeoff could wear down the engines, people familiar with the matter said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IndiGo and Go Airlines India Ltd. use the same type of engine made by Pratt &amp; Whitney that\u2019s susceptible to mid-flight shutdowns. Yet IndiGo, one of Airbus SE\u2019s biggest customers, is the only one to encounter turbine failures this year, drawing heavy scrutiny from the aviation regulator. The reason could be linked to how the budget airline flies. Advertising India\u2019s Directorate General of Civil Aviation told IndiGo\u2019s operator, InterGlobe Aviation Ltd., that its practice of revving A320neo jets at full thrust right after takeoff could wear down the engines, people familiar with the matter said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"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-303813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303813","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}