{"id":391532,"date":"2020-12-24T11:49:02","date_gmt":"2020-12-24T06:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=391532"},"modified":"2020-12-24T13:27:42","modified_gmt":"2020-12-24T07:57:42","slug":"air-india%e2%80%89may-refurbish-seats-of-two-boeing-777-aircraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/air-india%e2%80%89may-refurbish-seats-of-two-boeing-777-aircraft\/","title":{"rendered":"Air India\u2009may refurbish seats of two Boeing 777 aircraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Air India may refurbish seats of two of its Boeing 777 aircraft with seats pulled out from the two newly-acquired B777-300ER, which have been converted into VVIP aircraft. This task will be performed at Air India\u2019s Nagpur maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) facility. Sources confirmed that though the work is yet to begin, the seats have arrived at the airline\u2019s Nagpur facility from the United States of America (USA).<\/p>\n<p>In 2018, Air India had received two brand new B777s as part of a 2005 aircraft order. These were later converted and used for VVIP travel. The decade-old B747s that had previously been used for VVIP travel were converted back to regular seating and used in commercial operations.<\/p>\n<p>Airline sources said the de-configuration of these two aircraft is likely to be carried out soon by Air India\u2019s Nagpur MRO facility. \u201cThis will help the airline [which had complaints for poor seat quality in these aircraft] to refurbish two of its old B777 aircraft,\u201d a source said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Air India may refurbish seats of two of its Boeing 777 aircraft with seats pulled out from the two newly-acquired B777-300ER, which have been converted into VVIP aircraft. This task will be performed at Air India\u2019s Nagpur maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) facility. Sources confirmed that though the work is yet to begin, the seats have arrived at the airline\u2019s Nagpur facility from the United States of America (USA). In 2018, Air India had received two brand new B777s as part of a 2005 aircraft order. These were later converted and used for VVIP travel. The decade-old B747s that had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[184,141,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-391532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-hindustantimes","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391532","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}