{"id":306874,"date":"2019-12-23T11:45:35","date_gmt":"2019-12-23T06:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=306874"},"modified":"2019-12-23T11:53:48","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T06:23:48","slug":"air-india-sale-roadshows-abroad-get-tepid-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/air-india-sale-roadshows-abroad-get-tepid-response\/","title":{"rendered":"Air India sale: Roadshows abroad get tepid response"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Roadshows in Singapore and London, held to ascertain investor interest for the debt-laden national carrier Air India, received a lukewarm response from potential bidders, three top government officials aware of the development told ET. However, that\u2019s not likely to disrupt the government\u2019s privatisation plan schedule.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe response to the roadshow in Singapore was tepid and it was similar in London, where only a couple of interested parties attended. Definitely, there are concerns about the interest the airline will receive from potential buyers,\u201d said one of the three.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless of this, India is likely to finalise initial bidding documents for the carrier by next month. According to the current timeline, New Delhi is likely to issue the Expression of Interest (EoI) documents after the holiday season to ensure greater participation by foreign buyers, another official told ET.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Roadshows in Singapore and London, held to ascertain investor interest for the debt-laden national carrier Air India, received a lukewarm response from potential bidders, three top government officials aware of the development told ET. However, that\u2019s not likely to disrupt the government\u2019s privatisation plan schedule. \u201cThe response to the roadshow in Singapore was tepid and it was similar in London, where only a couple of interested parties attended. Definitely, there are concerns about the interest the airline will receive from potential buyers,\u201d said one of the three. Regardless of this, India is likely to finalise initial bidding documents [&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":[192,130,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-306874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306874","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=306874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}