{"id":369568,"date":"2020-08-24T12:23:30","date_gmt":"2020-08-24T06:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=369568"},"modified":"2020-08-24T12:23:30","modified_gmt":"2020-08-24T06:53:30","slug":"despite-accident-air-india-express-remains-an-attractive-lot-for-bidders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/despite-accident-air-india-express-remains-an-attractive-lot-for-bidders\/","title":{"rendered":"Despite accident, Air India Express remains an attractive lot for bidders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Though the tragedy of August 7 dealt Air India Express (AIE) a blow, it has not clipped the wings of the profit-making low-budget airline by any account. Ever since posting a profit of Rs 362 crore in the 2015-16 fiscal with just 19 aircrafts, the company has been on an upward trajectory. Though the profit margin saw a decline, it was primarily due to the airline&#8217;s decision to expand its fleet, which has reached 25 now &#8212; 17 owned by AIE and eight on lease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Though the tragedy of August 7 dealt Air India Express (AIE) a blow, it has not clipped the wings of the profit-making low-budget airline by any account. Ever since posting a profit of Rs 362 crore in the 2015-16 fiscal with just 19 aircrafts, the company has been on an upward trajectory. Though the profit margin saw a decline, it was primarily due to the airline&#8217;s decision to expand its fleet, which has reached 25 now &#8212; 17 owned by AIE and eight on lease.<\/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-369568","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\/369568","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=369568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}