{"id":444596,"date":"2021-10-23T10:39:24","date_gmt":"2021-10-23T05:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=444596"},"modified":"2021-10-23T11:15:39","modified_gmt":"2021-10-23T05:45:39","slug":"govt-expects-indian-carriers-purchasing-more-wide-bodied-aircraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/govt-expects-indian-carriers-purchasing-more-wide-bodied-aircraft\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt expects Indian carriers purchasing more wide-bodied aircraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Government 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.<\/p>\n<p>Only two Indian carriers \u2014 Air India and Vistara \u2014 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>Union Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia while speaking at a conference of Public Affairs Forum of India on Friday, 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 Government 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. Only two Indian carriers \u2014 Air India and Vistara \u2014 currently have wide-bodied aircraft, which have bigger fuel tanks that allows them to operate long-haul flights such as on India-US routes. Union Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia while speaking at a conference of Public Affairs Forum of India on Friday, 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 [&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":[212,130,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-444596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-pioneer","category-newspapers","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444596","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=444596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}