India\u2019s civil aviation industry seems to be suffering a sustained patch of turbulence. Late 2019 saw a series of aircraft snags, and the new year hasn\u2019t brought much relief. An Airbus A320neo powered by Pratt and Whitney (P&W) engines and operated by Indigo on the Mumbai-Singapore sector had to be grounded on Wednesday because of technical trouble, as reported by the airline in a statement on Thursday.<\/p>\n
In deep winter, it\u2019s usually fog that disrupts flight schedules across north India. This time, however, many of the cancellations have been on account of safety concerns. There have been rather too many instances of aircraft returning shortly after take-off. Engine reliability levels have rarely been so low. Airlines that use P&W jets on A20neo planes have been struggling to fix a problem that\u2019s specific to this combination of aviation equipment. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
India\u2019s civil aviation industry seems to be suffering a sustained patch of turbulence. Late 2019 saw a series of aircraft snags, and the new year hasn\u2019t brought much relief. An Airbus A320neo powered by Pratt and Whitney (P&W) engines and operated by Indigo on the Mumbai-Singapore sector had to be grounded on Wednesday because of technical trouble, as reported by the airline in a statement on Thursday. In deep winter, it\u2019s usually fog that disrupts flight schedules across north India. This time, however, many of the cancellations have been on account of safety concerns. There have been rather too many […]<\/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":[188,139,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-308509","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\/308509","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=308509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}