{"id":305909,"date":"2019-12-16T12:58:18","date_gmt":"2019-12-16T07:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=305909"},"modified":"2019-12-16T12:58:18","modified_gmt":"2019-12-16T07:28:18","slug":"air-india-needs-to-survive-till-it-is-sold-airline-chief-in-facebook-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/air-india-needs-to-survive-till-it-is-sold-airline-chief-in-facebook-post\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Air India needs to survive till it is sold\u2019: Airline chief in Facebook post"},"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 \u201cin this environment of disinvestment\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In a Facebook post, Air India Chairman and Managing Director Ashwani Lohani said, \u201cAir India needs to survive till it is sold.\u201d \u201cI 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,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Air India\u2019s 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 \u201cin this environment of disinvestment\u201d. In a Facebook post, Air India Chairman and Managing Director Ashwani Lohani said, \u201cAir India needs to survive till it is sold.\u201d \u201cI 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":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-305909","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\/305909","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=305909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}