{"id":374095,"date":"2020-09-18T11:30:08","date_gmt":"2020-09-18T06:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=374095"},"modified":"2020-09-18T11:30:08","modified_gmt":"2020-09-18T06:00:08","slug":"7-air-india-planes-leased-from-ireland-based-spvs-of-chinese-firms-puri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/7-air-india-planes-leased-from-ireland-based-spvs-of-chinese-firms-puri\/","title":{"rendered":"7 Air India planes leased from Ireland-based SPVs of Chinese firms: Puri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seven of Air India&#8217;s narrow-body aircraft have been leased from Ireland-based special purpose vehicles (SPVs) of Chinese companies, Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Presently, there is no proposal under consideration of the Ministry of Civil Aviation to ban any aircraft leasing entity,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Air India group has a total of 167 planes in its fleet, Puri mentioned.<\/p>\n<p>Air India has narrow-body aircraft like B737 as well as wide-body aircraft like B787 in its fleet. A narrow-body aircraft has a smaller fuel tank and therefore, it can fly for shorter distances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seven of Air India&#8217;s narrow-body aircraft have been leased from Ireland-based special purpose vehicles (SPVs) of Chinese companies, Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said on Thursday. &#8220;Presently, there is no proposal under consideration of the Ministry of Civil Aviation to ban any aircraft leasing entity,&#8221; he said. Air India group has a total of 167 planes in its fleet, Puri mentioned. Air India has narrow-body aircraft like B737 as well as wide-body aircraft like B787 in its fleet. A narrow-body aircraft has a smaller fuel tank and therefore, it can fly for shorter distances.<\/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":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-374095","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\/374095","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=374095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}