{"id":337300,"date":"2020-02-14T10:16:27","date_gmt":"2020-02-14T04:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=337300"},"modified":"2020-02-14T10:34:12","modified_gmt":"2020-02-14T05:04:12","slug":"spicejet-hopes-its-boeing-737-max-aircrafts-can-start-flying-from-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/spicejet-hopes-its-boeing-737-max-aircrafts-can-start-flying-from-june\/","title":{"rendered":"SpiceJet hopes its Boeing 737 Max aircrafts can start flying from June"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SpiceJet is hoping its Boeing 737 MAX aircraft can start flying by June, says Ajay Singh, chief managing director of the airline. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have grown 50 per cent this year,\u201d he told reporters here. \u201cThis was possible because we took some aircraft from the erstwhile Jet Airways. We have a large number, 42, of Max aircraft on the ground, waiting to fly.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Boeing 737 MAX planes were globally grounded in March 2019, after two of these crashed (elsewhere in the glo\u00adbe) within five months, raising safety concerns. Spice\u00adJet has ordered 225 of the \u00adBoe\u00ading 737 MAX, for $22 billion. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe hope they (MAX aircrafts) can come back and that will fuel our growth for this year. We are expecting the approvals to be in place by the end of May or in June,&#8221; he added. The company continues to talk with Boeing&#8217;s major rival, Airbus, and the latter is making offers, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpiceJet is hoping its Boeing 737 MAX aircraft can start flying by June, says Ajay Singh, chief managing director of the airline. \u201cWe have grown 50 per cent this year,\u201d he told reporters here. \u201cThis was possible because we took some aircraft from the erstwhile Jet Airways. We have a large number, 42, of Max aircraft on the ground, waiting to fly.&#8221; Boeing 737 MAX planes were globally grounded in March 2019, after two of these crashed (elsewhere in the glo\u00adbe) within five months, raising safety concerns. Spice\u00adJet has ordered 225 of the \u00adBoe\u00ading 737 MAX, for $22 billion. \u201cWe [&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":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-337300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337300","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=337300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}