{"id":413462,"date":"2021-05-04T11:39:19","date_gmt":"2021-05-04T06:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=413462"},"modified":"2021-05-04T12:57:30","modified_gmt":"2021-05-04T07:27:30","slug":"covid-lufthansa-hastens-fleet-modernisation-4-engine-planes-share-to-drop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/covid-lufthansa-hastens-fleet-modernisation-4-engine-planes-share-to-drop\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid: Lufthansa hastens fleet modernisation; 4-engine planes\u2019 share to drop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Lufthansa on Monday approved buying 10 long-haul aircraft \u2014 five Airbus A350-900s and five Boeing 787-9. The mega German carrier says it is \u201caccelerating fleet modernisation\u201d plan to replace older types on short, medium and long-haul routes. Accordingly, 175 new aircraft will be delivered to Lufthansa Group airlines this decade. <\/p>\n<p>The pandemic has preponed the retirement of four-engine passenger jets. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cCurrent plans call for an initial fleet reduction, while at the same time extensively modernizing it in the future. The Boeing 787-9 and Airbus A350-900 will essentially replace the four-engine A340 long-haul aircraft as part of this process. Plans call for reducing the number of four-engine aircraft in the Lufthansa Group long-haul fleet to less than 15% by the middle of this decade;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Lufthansa on Monday approved buying 10 long-haul aircraft \u2014 five Airbus A350-900s and five Boeing 787-9. The mega German carrier says it is \u201caccelerating fleet modernisation\u201d plan to replace older types on short, medium and long-haul routes. Accordingly, 175 new aircraft will be delivered to Lufthansa Group airlines this decade. The pandemic has preponed the retirement of four-engine passenger jets. \u201cCurrent plans call for an initial fleet reduction, while at the same time extensively modernizing it in the future. The Boeing 787-9 and Airbus A350-900 will essentially replace the four-engine A340 long-haul aircraft as part of this process. [&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":[220,130,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-413462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413462","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=413462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}