{"id":429423,"date":"2021-08-06T12:16:07","date_gmt":"2021-08-06T06:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=429423"},"modified":"2021-08-06T12:16:07","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T06:46:07","slug":"qatar-airways-grounds-13-airbus-a350s-as-fuselage-degrading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/qatar-airways-grounds-13-airbus-a350s-as-fuselage-degrading\/","title":{"rendered":"Qatar Airways grounds 13 Airbus A350s as fuselage degrading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DUBAI: Qatar Airways said Thursday it grounded 13 Airbus A350s over what it described as fuselages &#8220;degrading at an accelerated rate&#8221; in the long-range aircraft, further escalating a monthslong dispute with the European airplane maker over the issue.<\/p>\n<p>While Airbus declined to specifically discuss the announcement, Qatar Airways&#8217; announcement to journalists raised questions about the A350s&#8217; carbon composite fuselage, designed to make the twin-aisle aircraft lighter and cheaper to operate by burning less jet fuel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DUBAI: Qatar Airways said Thursday it grounded 13 Airbus A350s over what it described as fuselages &#8220;degrading at an accelerated rate&#8221; in the long-range aircraft, further escalating a monthslong dispute with the European airplane maker over the issue. While Airbus declined to specifically discuss the announcement, Qatar Airways&#8217; announcement to journalists raised questions about the A350s&#8217; carbon composite fuselage, designed to make the twin-aisle aircraft lighter and cheaper to operate by burning less jet fuel.<\/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":[208,130,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-429423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429423","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=429423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}