{"id":347849,"date":"2020-04-22T10:04:19","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T04:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=347849"},"modified":"2020-04-22T10:38:43","modified_gmt":"2020-04-22T05:08:43","slug":"air-india-sale-to-be-delayed-as-govt-mulls-extending-last-date-for-eoi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/air-india-sale-to-be-delayed-as-govt-mulls-extending-last-date-for-eoi\/","title":{"rendered":"Air India sale to be delayed as govt mulls extending last date for EOI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The sale of Air India is expected to be delayed for a second time, with the Centre planning to extend the last date for expression of interest (EoI) from April 30 \u2014 for the second time \u2014 to a new date. <\/p>\n<p>This comes even as potential bidders are having second thoughts about the airline, taking into account the changed economic environment. Bidders, who are communicating with the Indian government, say bankruptcies announced by several airlines globally due to the travel ban has hit investor sentiment hard. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAirlines are now filing for bankruptcies on a daily basis and the new corporate mantra is to conserve cash. In this background, the sale of Air India looks difficult,\u201d said a potential bidder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sale of Air India is expected to be delayed for a second time, with the Centre planning to extend the last date for expression of interest (EoI) from April 30 \u2014 for the second time \u2014 to a new date. This comes even as potential bidders are having second thoughts about the airline, taking into account the changed economic environment. Bidders, who are communicating with the Indian government, say bankruptcies announced by several airlines globally due to the travel ban has hit investor sentiment hard. \u201cAirlines are now filing for bankruptcies on a daily basis and the new corporate [&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-347849","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\/347849","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=347849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}