{"id":340902,"date":"2020-03-07T12:14:35","date_gmt":"2020-03-07T06:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=340902"},"modified":"2020-03-07T12:37:44","modified_gmt":"2020-03-07T07:07:44","slug":"heres-why-indias-new-boeing-787-9-dreamliner-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/heres-why-indias-new-boeing-787-9-dreamliner-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s why India&#8217;s new Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vistara, a Singapore Airlines and Tata Sons joint venture received its first Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner on Feb. 29, 2020. <\/p>\n<p>The Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner aircraft is a wide-body, long-haul aircraft similar to the previous version 787-8 but can carry more passengers due to a longer fuselage and can travel farther with a range of 14,100 km instead of the 787-8\u2019s 13,600 km. It also consumes 20% less fuel compared to the earlier generation of the Dreamliner. <\/p>\n<p>The aircraft\u2019s fuselage is longer by 6 metres, which enables the airline to carry 280 passengers rather than the usual 240 passengers. <\/p>\n<p>The airline plans to employ a three-class configuration for the aircraft with economy, premium economy and business class. The economy class will have a 3-3-3 configuration across 2 cabins, one 21-seater premium economy cabin in a 2-3-2 configuration and a business class cabin with 1-2-1 configuration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vistara, a Singapore Airlines and Tata Sons joint venture received its first Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner on Feb. 29, 2020. The Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner aircraft is a wide-body, long-haul aircraft similar to the previous version 787-8 but can carry more passengers due to a longer fuselage and can travel farther with a range of 14,100 km instead of the 787-8\u2019s 13,600 km. It also consumes 20% less fuel compared to the earlier generation of the Dreamliner. The aircraft\u2019s fuselage is longer by 6 metres, which enables the airline to carry 280 passengers rather than the usual 240 passengers. The airline plans [&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":[176,146,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-340902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340902","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=340902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}