{"id":346283,"date":"2020-04-10T11:55:42","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T06:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=346283"},"modified":"2020-04-10T11:56:19","modified_gmt":"2020-04-10T06:26:19","slug":"coronavirus-deteriorates-air-india-finances-but-airline-manages-to-keep-afloat-says-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/coronavirus-deteriorates-air-india-finances-but-airline-manages-to-keep-afloat-says-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus deteriorates Air India finances but airline manages to keep afloat, says chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Air India chief Rajiv Bansal on Thursday said that the &#8220;crippling effect&#8221; of coronavirus has further plummeted the airline&#8217;s finances to a &#8220;precarious&#8221; position but despite that, it has managed to keep afloat.<\/p>\n<p>Bansal, in a message on Thursday, also assured the employees of providing all the &#8220;essential armoury&#8221; in carrying out evacuation and chartered flights amid the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Air India has been passing through a critical financial condition much before the Covid19 onslaught. The crippling effect of the pandemic, especially in the aviation sector, has further plummeted our finances to a precarious position. In spite of this, your airline has left no stone unturned to continue to remain afloat,&#8221; Bansal said in a message to Air India employees on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Air India chief Rajiv Bansal on Thursday said that the &#8220;crippling effect&#8221; of coronavirus has further plummeted the airline&#8217;s finances to a &#8220;precarious&#8221; position but despite that, it has managed to keep afloat. Bansal, in a message on Thursday, also assured the employees of providing all the &#8220;essential armoury&#8221; in carrying out evacuation and chartered flights amid the pandemic. &#8220;Air India has been passing through a critical financial condition much before the Covid19 onslaught. The crippling effect of the pandemic, especially in the aviation sector, has further plummeted our finances to a precarious position. In spite of this, your airline [&hellip;]<\/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":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-346283","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\/346283","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=346283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}