{"id":444554,"date":"2021-10-23T10:38:19","date_gmt":"2021-10-23T05:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=444554"},"modified":"2021-10-23T10:38:19","modified_gmt":"2021-10-23T05:08:19","slug":"looking-forward-to-indian-carriers-purchasing-many-more-wide-bodied-aircraft-scindia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/looking-forward-to-indian-carriers-purchasing-many-more-wide-bodied-aircraft-scindia\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking forward to Indian carriers purchasing many more wide-bodied aircraft: Scindia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre is looking forward to Indian airlines purchasing and leasing many more wide-bodied aircraft once the Indian aviation sector recuperates from the COVID-induced crisis, Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia said on Friday. Only two Indian carriers &#8212; Air India and Vistara &#8212; currently have wide-bodied aircraft, which have bigger fuel tanks that allows them to operate long-haul flights such as on India-US routes.<\/p>\n<p>Scindia, while speaking at a conference of Public Affairs Forum of India, said Air India&#8217;s successful sale to the Tata group is a testament of the belief of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and this government that &#8220;the private sector has an integral to play in making sure that service value proposition is there for all customers&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre is looking forward to Indian airlines purchasing and leasing many more wide-bodied aircraft once the Indian aviation sector recuperates from the COVID-induced crisis, Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia said on Friday. Only two Indian carriers &#8212; Air India and Vistara &#8212; currently have wide-bodied aircraft, which have bigger fuel tanks that allows them to operate long-haul flights such as on India-US routes. Scindia, while speaking at a conference of Public Affairs Forum of India, said Air India&#8217;s successful sale to the Tata group is a testament of the belief of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and this government that [&hellip;]<\/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":[192,130,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-444554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444554","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=444554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}