{"id":439754,"date":"2021-10-04T10:09:30","date_gmt":"2021-10-04T04:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=439754"},"modified":"2021-10-04T11:01:41","modified_gmt":"2021-10-04T05:31:41","slug":"tata-sons-emerges-as-the-winner-in-air-india-bid-what-ailed-the-maharaja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/tata-sons-emerges-as-the-winner-in-air-india-bid-what-ailed-the-maharaja\/","title":{"rendered":"Tata Sons emerges as the winner in Air India bid. What ailed the Maharaja?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tata Sons have emerged as the winning bidder for Air India, a debt-ridden airline that was nationalised in 1953, reports said on Friday. The selection of Tata Sons to lead Air India may seem like history coming full-circle as it was the same group that built India\u2019s first airlines in 1932 and called it the Tata Airlines. Tata Airlines, which was a brainchild of JRD Tata and a veteran World War I pilot Nevill Vintcent, was renamed Air India in 1946 after it became public. <\/p>\n<p>With Tata Sons emerging as Air India next owners, this handover could come as a relief for Prime Minister Narendra Modi as the enterprise, for decades, was bleeding the government. According to a Reuters report, the government was losing \u20b9200 million every day to run Air India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tata Sons have emerged as the winning bidder for Air India, a debt-ridden airline that was nationalised in 1953, reports said on Friday. The selection of Tata Sons to lead Air India may seem like history coming full-circle as it was the same group that built India\u2019s first airlines in 1932 and called it the Tata Airlines. Tata Airlines, which was a brainchild of JRD Tata and a veteran World War I pilot Nevill Vintcent, was renamed Air India in 1946 after it became public. With Tata Sons emerging as Air India next owners, this handover could come as a [&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-439754","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\/439754","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=439754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}