{"id":310572,"date":"2020-01-15T13:05:04","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T07:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=310572"},"modified":"2020-01-15T13:05:04","modified_gmt":"2020-01-15T07:35:04","slug":"indigo-deadline-to-change-pw-engines-pushed-to-may-31-dgca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indigo-deadline-to-change-pw-engines-pushed-to-may-31-dgca\/","title":{"rendered":"IndiGo deadline to change P&amp;W engines pushed to May 31: DGCA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IndiGo, India\u2019s largest domestic airline, has earned a reprieve with the aviation regulator extending a deadline to replace Pratt &amp; Whitney (P&amp;W) engines on its Airbus A320neo aircraft by four months to May 31, a senior government official said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The move would help IndiGo temporarily avert what seemed an imminent grounding of a large number of planes for not meeting the previous deadline of January 31. IndiGo will, however, have to procure 135 engines, according to plans submitted to the DGCA, Airbus, and P&amp;W, said the official mentioned above requesting anonymity. Under an earlier plan, IndiGo was required to change 120 P&amp;W engines by December 2019. The number of engines to be replaced has risen because of stringent new boroscopic inspections to ensure zero snags of planes mid-air, the official said.<\/p>\n<p>The airline has placed at least one modified engine in each of its P&amp;W powered A320neo aircraft in its fleet ahead of the March 2020 deadline set by the European Union Aviation Safety Agency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IndiGo, India\u2019s largest domestic airline, has earned a reprieve with the aviation regulator extending a deadline to replace Pratt &amp; Whitney (P&amp;W) engines on its Airbus A320neo aircraft by four months to May 31, a senior government official said on Monday. The move would help IndiGo temporarily avert what seemed an imminent grounding of a large number of planes for not meeting the previous deadline of January 31. IndiGo will, however, have to procure 135 engines, according to plans submitted to the DGCA, Airbus, and P&amp;W, said the official mentioned above requesting anonymity. Under an earlier plan, IndiGo was required [&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-310572","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\/310572","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=310572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}