{"id":352109,"date":"2020-05-19T12:43:29","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T07:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=352109"},"modified":"2020-05-19T12:43:29","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T07:13:29","slug":"gasping-aviation-industry-gets-lifeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/gasping-aviation-industry-gets-lifeline\/","title":{"rendered":"Gasping aviation industry gets lifeline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: The Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman&#8217;s announcement to make India a hub for Maintenance and Repair Overhaul (MRO) for aircraft has offered the much-needed relief to an aviation industry gasping for survival in the Covid-19 era.  It will open up a huge foreign market as well as generate much domestic employment, the industry says.<\/p>\n<p>Bharat Malkani, president of the MRO Association, said there are 600 aircraft in India and their maintenance and repairs is a billion-dollar affair annually. He said, \u201cThe big centres for the MRO industry are in Mumbai and New Delhi. The biggest chunk of operational expenses of any aircraft goes towards maintenance as it ensures safety of the aircraft and passengers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: The Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman&#8217;s announcement to make India a hub for Maintenance and Repair Overhaul (MRO) for aircraft has offered the much-needed relief to an aviation industry gasping for survival in the Covid-19 era. It will open up a huge foreign market as well as generate much domestic employment, the industry says. Bharat Malkani, president of the MRO Association, said there are 600 aircraft in India and their maintenance and repairs is a billion-dollar affair annually. He said, \u201cThe big centres for the MRO industry are in Mumbai and New Delhi. The biggest chunk of operational expenses [&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":[208,130,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-352109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352109","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=352109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}