NEW DELHI: Vistara is \u2018evaluating\u2019 Air India and will decide on bidding for the Maharaja based on the outcome of this process. Bhaskar Bhat, chairman of the Tata Group-Singapore Airlines JV, said on Monday \u201cwhich company would not be interested in evaluating a sovereign airline of the country.\u201d The government\u2019s second attempt to sell off AI on much sweeter terms is currently on and expressions of interest (EoI) have to be submitted by March 17.
\n\u201cWhether we bid or not comes later. But evaluation to karenge,\u201d Bhat said while inducing Vistara\u2019s first wide body aircraft, a Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner, into the fleet at Delhi Airport on Monday. While AI has 27 Dreamliners (B787-8, apart from 18 B777s), Vistara has ordered six B787-9 and will get delivery of the second one later this month.
\n\u201cAmong the options for us (as Vistara Dreamliner destinations) are London, Paris, Moscow and Tokyo. A decision will be taken shortly. The onward product has been designed keeping in mind the flyer. We will offer an authentic Indian experience on our flights,\u201d Bhat said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
NEW DELHI: Vistara is \u2018evaluating\u2019 Air India and will decide on bidding for the Maharaja based on the outcome of this process. Bhaskar Bhat, chairman of the Tata Group-Singapore Airlines JV, said on Monday \u201cwhich company would not be interested in evaluating a sovereign airline of the country.\u201d The government\u2019s second attempt to sell off AI on much sweeter terms is currently on and expressions of interest (EoI) have to be submitted by March 17. \u201cWhether we bid or not comes later. But evaluation to karenge,\u201d Bhat said while inducing Vistara\u2019s first wide body aircraft, a Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner, into […]<\/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":[220,130,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-340250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340250","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=340250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}