{"id":435535,"date":"2021-09-13T10:24:21","date_gmt":"2021-09-13T04:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=435535"},"modified":"2021-09-13T11:40:52","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T06:10:52","slug":"12-air-india-airbus-aircraft-remain-grounded-due-to-want-of-engines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/12-air-india-airbus-aircraft-remain-grounded-due-to-want-of-engines\/","title":{"rendered":"12 Air India Airbus aircraft remain grounded due to want of engines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least a dozen Airbus aircraft of the disinvestment-bound Air India are grounded since the past few years for engine replacement, but the airline is unable to perform the task due to shortage of funds. <\/p>\n<p>Airline sources said that with the national carrier almost set to go to private hands, whether these aircraft are put back into operation or not will depend on the outcome of the privatisation process.<\/p>\n<p>Despite repeated attempts, Air India spokesperson did not comment on the matter.<\/p>\n<p>An airline source said, \u201cAt least 12 Airbus 320 aircraft continue to remain grounded. The airline needs over \u20b91100 crore to make them operational, which the management is unlikely to spend considering the ongoing privatisation process.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least a dozen Airbus aircraft of the disinvestment-bound Air India are grounded since the past few years for engine replacement, but the airline is unable to perform the task due to shortage of funds. Airline sources said that with the national carrier almost set to go to private hands, whether these aircraft are put back into operation or not will depend on the outcome of the privatisation process. Despite repeated attempts, Air India spokesperson did not comment on the matter. An airline source said, \u201cAt least 12 Airbus 320 aircraft continue to remain grounded. The airline needs over \u20b91100 [&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":[184,141,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-435535","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\/435535","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=435535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}