{"id":363238,"date":"2020-07-17T10:54:05","date_gmt":"2020-07-17T05:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=363238"},"modified":"2020-07-17T11:13:17","modified_gmt":"2020-07-17T05:43:17","slug":"in-a-first-indigo-spicejet-to-wet-lease-planes-to-launch-long-haul-overseas-flights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/in-a-first-indigo-spicejet-to-wet-lease-planes-to-launch-long-haul-overseas-flights\/","title":{"rendered":"In a first, IndiGo &amp; SpiceJet to wet-lease planes to launch long-haul overseas flights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: As India resumes air travel with various nations, IndiGo NSE 0.03 % and SpiceJet, in a first, are leasing long-haul planes on a wet lease to launch flights to the UK and Europe. While SpiceJet NSE -1.51 % has already leased one Airbus 330 aircraft from Oman Air to launch flights to London from July 27, IndiGo is in discussions to lease three Airbus 330s for such flights. IndiGo, according to sources, has not yet finalised on destinations but may look at flying to London and Paris both.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSpiceJet would also use Oman Air\u2019s slot available at Heathrow to launch this flight. They are also looking at leasing three more for such flights. IndiGo, on the other hand, is looking to wet-lease three aircraft to launch these flights,\u201d said a person in the know, who did not want to be identified.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: As India resumes air travel with various nations, IndiGo NSE 0.03 % and SpiceJet, in a first, are leasing long-haul planes on a wet lease to launch flights to the UK and Europe. While SpiceJet NSE -1.51 % has already leased one Airbus 330 aircraft from Oman Air to launch flights to London from July 27, IndiGo is in discussions to lease three Airbus 330s for such flights. IndiGo, according to sources, has not yet finalised on destinations but may look at flying to London and Paris both. \u201cSpiceJet would also use Oman Air\u2019s slot available at Heathrow [&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":[192,130,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-363238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363238","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=363238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}