{"id":346300,"date":"2020-04-10T12:23:27","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T06:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=346300"},"modified":"2020-04-10T12:23:27","modified_gmt":"2020-04-10T06:53:27","slug":"air-india-afloat-despite-crippling-effect-of-covid-19-says-rajiv-bansal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/air-india-afloat-despite-crippling-effect-of-covid-19-says-rajiv-bansal\/","title":{"rendered":"Air India afloat despite &#8216;crippling effect&#8217; of Covid-19, says Rajiv Bansal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Air India chief Rajiv Bansal on Thursday said that while the &#8220;crippling effect&#8221; of the novel coronavirus has put the airline&#8217;s finances in a &#8220;precarious&#8221; position, it has managed to keep afloat.<br \/>\nBansal, in a message on Thursday, also assured the employees of providing all the &#8220;essential armoury&#8221; in carrying out evacuations and running chartered flights amid the pandemic.<br \/>\n&#8220;Air India had been passing through a critical financial condition much before the Covid-19 onslaught. The crippling effect of the pandemic, especially in the aviation sector, has further put our finances in 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 while the &#8220;crippling effect&#8221; of the novel coronavirus has put the airline&#8217;s finances in a &#8220;precarious&#8221; position, 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 evacuations and running chartered flights amid the pandemic. &#8220;Air India had been passing through a critical financial condition much before the Covid-19 onslaught. The crippling effect of the pandemic, especially in the aviation sector, has further put our finances in 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-346300","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\/346300","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=346300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}