{"id":303822,"date":"2019-12-02T12:36:21","date_gmt":"2019-12-02T07:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=303822"},"modified":"2019-12-02T12:55:22","modified_gmt":"2019-12-02T07:25:22","slug":"indigos-a320neo-engine-issue-linked-to-how-airline-flies-planes-believes-dgca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indigos-a320neo-engine-issue-linked-to-how-airline-flies-planes-believes-dgca\/","title":{"rendered":"IndiGo&#8217;s A320neo engine issue linked to how airline flies planes, believes DGCA"},"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.<\/p>\n<p>The reason could be linked to how the budget airline flies. 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. By contrast, Go Air \u2014 India\u2019s fourth-largest carrier by market share \u2014 typically uses a so-called alt-climb approach that applies less thrust, the people said, asking not to be identified discussing a private matter.<\/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. 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. By contrast, Go Air \u2014 India\u2019s [&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":[188,139,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-303822","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\/303822","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=303822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}