{"id":430615,"date":"2021-08-13T11:22:06","date_gmt":"2021-08-13T05:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=430615"},"modified":"2021-08-13T12:34:53","modified_gmt":"2021-08-13T07:04:53","slug":"akasa-ahoy-boeing-737-max-may-be-allowed-to-fly-again-in-india-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/akasa-ahoy-boeing-737-max-may-be-allowed-to-fly-again-in-india-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"Akasa ahoy: Boeing 737 Max may be allowed to fly again in India soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India is likely to allow the grounded-since-March-2019 Boeing 737 Max to fly again within the country in coming weeks. <\/p>\n<p>Billionaire investor Rakesh Jhunjhunwala-promoted Akasa airline is planning to have a B737 Max fleet. <\/p>\n<p>While SpiceJet, the only Indian carrier with B737 Max in its fleet, has so far not approached the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) seeking clearance for this aircraft to fly again, sources say Akasa informally approached aviation authorities for the same as it prepares to place an order for about 100 Max. <\/p>\n<p>A Boeing spokesperson said: \u201cWe continue to work with global regulators to safely return the 737-8 and 737-9 to service worldwide. We\u2019ll defer to the DGCA on timelines.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India is likely to allow the grounded-since-March-2019 Boeing 737 Max to fly again within the country in coming weeks. Billionaire investor Rakesh Jhunjhunwala-promoted Akasa airline is planning to have a B737 Max fleet. While SpiceJet, the only Indian carrier with B737 Max in its fleet, has so far not approached the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) seeking clearance for this aircraft to fly again, sources say Akasa informally approached aviation authorities for the same as it prepares to place an order for about 100 Max. A Boeing spokesperson said: \u201cWe continue to work with global regulators to [&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-430615","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\/430615","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=430615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}