{"id":337254,"date":"2020-02-13T11:30:02","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T06:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=337254"},"modified":"2020-02-13T12:19:21","modified_gmt":"2020-02-13T06:49:21","slug":"boeing-to-set-up-a-737-max-simulator-in-india-spicejet-chief-ajay-singh-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/boeing-to-set-up-a-737-max-simulator-in-india-spicejet-chief-ajay-singh-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Boeing to set up a 737 max simulator in India, SpiceJet chief Ajay Singh says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI\/SINGAPORE : Boeing Co. agreed to set up a simulator for 737 Max jets in India and will bear the full cost, a key Indian customer said, as the US planemaker steps up efforts to bring the grounded jet back to service.<\/p>\n<p>The simulator is set to be available this summer, ahead of the plane model\u2019s re-certification, Ajay Singh, chairman of budget carrier SpiceJet Ltd., said in an interview on Wednesday at the Singapore Airshow.<\/p>\n<p>Boeing has changed an earlier stance and now recommends simulator training for pilots of the 737 Max, which was grounded worldwide last year following two fatal crashes linked to its flight-control software. Setting up new simulators and paying for pilot training could strain Boeing\u2019s finances even further, which are already saddled with an estimated $18.6 billion in total costs for the grounded single-aisle jet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI\/SINGAPORE : Boeing Co. agreed to set up a simulator for 737 Max jets in India and will bear the full cost, a key Indian customer said, as the US planemaker steps up efforts to bring the grounded jet back to service. The simulator is set to be available this summer, ahead of the plane model\u2019s re-certification, Ajay Singh, chairman of budget carrier SpiceJet Ltd., said in an interview on Wednesday at the Singapore Airshow. Boeing has changed an earlier stance and now recommends simulator training for pilots of the 737 Max, which was grounded worldwide last year following [&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":[188,139,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-337254","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\/337254","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=337254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}