{"id":308988,"date":"2020-01-06T12:14:31","date_gmt":"2020-01-06T06:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=308988"},"modified":"2020-01-06T12:24:15","modified_gmt":"2020-01-06T06:54:15","slug":"rumours-of-ais-shutdown-are-baseless-says-cmd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/rumours-of-ais-shutdown-are-baseless-says-cmd\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Rumours\u2019 of AI\u2019s shutdown are baseless, says CMD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Air India chief Ashwani Lohani on Saturday said that \u201crumours\u201d of the disinvestment-bound airline\u2019s shutdown are \u201call baseless\u201d, weeks after he told the Civil Aviation Ministry that the carrier\u2019s financial situation was \u201cgrossly untenable\u201d for sustaining operations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRumours regarding Air India shutting down or closing operations are all baseless. Air India would continue to fly and also expand and there should be no cause for concern whatsoever to travellers, corporates or agents. Air India the national carrier is still the biggest airline of India,\u201d the Air India Chairman and Managing Director tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter to the ministry last month, he had said, \u201cIt also needs appreciation that the overall financial situation is grossly untenable and the airline may not be able to sustain physical operations in the absence of immediate Government intervention and support that we have been repeatedly requesting for in the recent past.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Air India chief Ashwani Lohani on Saturday said that \u201crumours\u201d of the disinvestment-bound airline\u2019s shutdown are \u201call baseless\u201d, weeks after he told the Civil Aviation Ministry that the carrier\u2019s financial situation was \u201cgrossly untenable\u201d for sustaining operations. \u201cRumours regarding Air India shutting down or closing operations are all baseless. Air India would continue to fly and also expand and there should be no cause for concern whatsoever to travellers, corporates or agents. Air India the national carrier is still the biggest airline of India,\u201d the Air India Chairman and Managing Director tweeted. In a letter to the ministry last month, [&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-308988","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\/308988","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=308988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}