{"id":401464,"date":"2021-02-22T11:08:23","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T05:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=401464"},"modified":"2021-02-22T11:08:23","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T05:38:23","slug":"ajay-singh-is-keen-to-board-air-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/ajay-singh-is-keen-to-board-air-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Ajay Singh is keen to board Air India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A grouping of SpiceJet NSE -2.20 % promoter Ajay Singh and two other investors is said to have shown interest in acquiring Air India, and is among the \u201cmultiple\u201d overtures the government said it has received for the carrier.<\/p>\n<p>Singh is interested in buying 100% in Air India in his personal capacity, with support from investors, at least one of which is a foreign fund, people aware of the matter told ET. \u201cSingh is unlikely to be the largest shareholder in the airline if it goes to him and his co-investors,\u201d said one person, asking not to be identified. Singh, who cofounded SpiceJet in 2005 and sold it to Kalanithi Maran in 2010, returned in 2015, and is credited with turning around the then-ailing airline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A grouping of SpiceJet NSE -2.20 % promoter Ajay Singh and two other investors is said to have shown interest in acquiring Air India, and is among the \u201cmultiple\u201d overtures the government said it has received for the carrier. Singh is interested in buying 100% in Air India in his personal capacity, with support from investors, at least one of which is a foreign fund, people aware of the matter told ET. \u201cSingh is unlikely to be the largest shareholder in the airline if it goes to him and his co-investors,\u201d said one person, asking not to be identified. Singh, [&hellip;]<\/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":[192,130,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-401464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401464","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=401464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}