{"id":371455,"date":"2020-09-03T09:20:12","date_gmt":"2020-09-03T03:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=371455"},"modified":"2020-09-03T09:57:50","modified_gmt":"2020-09-03T04:27:50","slug":"qatar-airways-has-reached-deal-with-airbus-on-delivery-delays-still-in-talks-with-boeing-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/qatar-airways-has-reached-deal-with-airbus-on-delivery-delays-still-in-talks-with-boeing-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"Qatar Airways has reached deal with Airbus on delivery delays, still in talks with Boeing: CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Qatar Airways has concluded negotiations with Airbus SE to delay delivery of airplanes due to the pandemic-induced travel downturn but remains in talks with Boeing Co about deferrals, the airline&#8217;s chief executive said on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have the ability to bring forward the deliveries if there is a rebound in air travel,&#8221; Qatar Airways CEO Akbar al-Baker said of the Airbus deal at the CAPA Australia Pacific Aviation Summit, without providing further details. <\/p>\n<p>Al-Baker said the airline had not reached an agreement with Boeing. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As far as Boeing is concerned we are still in negotations with them but regardless of what they feel an aircraft manufacturer needs to oblige customers in difficult times,&#8221; he said. &#8220;People who will not oblige and stand with us in this difficult time will not see us again.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Qatar Airways has concluded negotiations with Airbus SE to delay delivery of airplanes due to the pandemic-induced travel downturn but remains in talks with Boeing Co about deferrals, the airline&#8217;s chief executive said on Wednesday. &#8220;We have the ability to bring forward the deliveries if there is a rebound in air travel,&#8221; Qatar Airways CEO Akbar al-Baker said of the Airbus deal at the CAPA Australia Pacific Aviation Summit, without providing further details. Al-Baker said the airline had not reached an agreement with Boeing. &#8220;As far as Boeing is concerned we are still in negotations with them but regardless of [&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":[176,146,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-371455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371455","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=371455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}