{"id":336098,"date":"2020-02-05T12:01:57","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T06:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=336098"},"modified":"2020-02-05T12:02:10","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T06:32:10","slug":"foreign-airlines-keen-on-air-india-buy-says-government-official-on-future-of-debt-laden-carrier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/foreign-airlines-keen-on-air-india-buy-says-government-official-on-future-of-debt-laden-carrier\/","title":{"rendered":"Foreign airlines keen on Air India buy, says government official on future of debt-laden carrier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI:  Foreign airlines are keen to acquire Air India, Disinvestment Secretary Tuhin Kanta Pandey told TNIE on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have seen sufficient interest from potential foreign buyers, some of them airlines. We can\u2019t name them because of the confidentiality clause,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Under existing norms, foreign airlines can acquire only up to 49% in the national carrier. So, foreign carriers wishing to bid will have to be part of a consortium (with Indian partners),&#8221; Pandey added. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Foreign airlines are keen to acquire Air India, Disinvestment Secretary Tuhin Kanta Pandey told TNIE on Tuesday. \u201cWe have seen sufficient interest from potential foreign buyers, some of them airlines. We can\u2019t name them because of the confidentiality clause,\u201d he said. &#8220;Under existing norms, foreign airlines can acquire only up to 49% in the national carrier. So, foreign carriers wishing to bid will have to be part of a consortium (with Indian partners),&#8221; Pandey added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[208,130,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-336098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336098","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}