{"id":305876,"date":"2019-12-16T12:31:06","date_gmt":"2019-12-16T07:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=305876"},"modified":"2019-12-16T12:45:54","modified_gmt":"2019-12-16T07:15:54","slug":"in-this-disinvestment-environment-expecting-radical-improvement-in-air-india-impractical-cmd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/in-this-disinvestment-environment-expecting-radical-improvement-in-air-india-impractical-cmd\/","title":{"rendered":"In this disinvestment environment, expecting radical improvement in Air India impractical: CMD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the central government is planning to invite bids for Air India soon, its CMD said on Saturday that expecting a radical improvement in the airline bordering on a turnaround is an impractical thought &#8220;in this environment of disinvestment&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>In a Facebook post, Air India Chairman and Managing Director Ashwani Lohani said, &#8220;Air India needs to survive till it is sold.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I wonder why is it so difficult for this appreciation to sink in and also that in this environment of disinvestment, expecting a radical improvement bordering on a turnaround is an impractical thought. That output can be given sans inputs is a grossly impractical thought,&#8221; he added. <\/p>\n<p>Air India&#8217;s net loss in 2018-19 was around Rs 8,556 crore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the central government is planning to invite bids for Air India soon, its CMD said on Saturday that expecting a radical improvement in the airline bordering on a turnaround is an impractical thought &#8220;in this environment of disinvestment&#8221;. In a Facebook post, Air India Chairman and Managing Director Ashwani Lohani said, &#8220;Air India needs to survive till it is sold.&#8221; &#8220;I wonder why is it so difficult for this appreciation to sink in and also that in this environment of disinvestment, expecting a radical improvement bordering on a turnaround is an impractical thought. That output can be given sans [&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":[212,130,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-305876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-pioneer","category-newspapers","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305876","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=305876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}