{"id":390867,"date":"2020-12-22T11:02:51","date_gmt":"2020-12-22T05:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=390867"},"modified":"2020-12-22T12:14:02","modified_gmt":"2020-12-22T06:44:02","slug":"air-india-divestment-history-suggests-still-some-way-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/air-india-divestment-history-suggests-still-some-way-to-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Air India divestment: History suggests still some way to go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a series of changes to the bidding conditions and a number of deadline extensions, the government has finally closed the first phase of Air India\u2019s disinvestment having received \u201cmultiple expressions of interest\u201d. While in light of recent events concerning Air India\u2019s disinvestment, this is an important step forward in the sale process, history of the airline\u2019s strategic sale exercise would suggest there is still some way to go. <\/p>\n<p>What is the history of Air India\u2019s disinvestment? <\/p>\n<p>The first ever attempt to conduct a strategic sale of the airline was made in 2001 during Atal Bihari Vajpayee\u2019s NDA government, when 40% of the airline\u2019s equity was put on the block. Initially a number of foreign airlines including Lufthansa, Swissair,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a series of changes to the bidding conditions and a number of deadline extensions, the government has finally closed the first phase of Air India\u2019s disinvestment having received \u201cmultiple expressions of interest\u201d. While in light of recent events concerning Air India\u2019s disinvestment, this is an important step forward in the sale process, history of the airline\u2019s strategic sale exercise would suggest there is still some way to go. What is the history of Air India\u2019s disinvestment? The first ever attempt to conduct a strategic sale of the airline was made in 2001 during Atal Bihari Vajpayee\u2019s NDA government, when [&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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-390867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390867","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=390867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}