{"id":450156,"date":"2021-11-17T08:30:25","date_gmt":"2021-11-17T03:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=450156"},"modified":"2021-11-17T08:49:51","modified_gmt":"2021-11-17T03:19:51","slug":"rakesh-jhunjhunwala-backed-akasa-air-orders-72-boeing-737-max-jets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/rakesh-jhunjhunwala-backed-akasa-air-orders-72-boeing-737-max-jets\/","title":{"rendered":"Rakesh Jhunjhunwala-backed Akasa Air orders 72 Boeing 737 MAX jets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indian low-cost airline Akasa Air placed an order for 72 Boeing 737 MAX jets, a move that might help the U.S. planemaker regain lost ground in one of the world&#8217;s most promising markets.<\/p>\n<p>The orders by Akasa, which is backed by billionaire investor Rakesh Jhunjhunwala, are incremental orders, a Boeing executive said on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Akasa Air&#8217;s order includes two variants from the 737 MAX family, including the 737-8 and the high-capacity 737-8-200,&#8221; the joint statement by Akasa Air and Boeing mentioned.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, SNV Aviation, which owns Akasa Air, said it expected to start flying next year after getting initial clearance from the civil aviation ministry to launch the country&#8217;s latest ultra-low-cost carrier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian low-cost airline Akasa Air placed an order for 72 Boeing 737 MAX jets, a move that might help the U.S. planemaker regain lost ground in one of the world&#8217;s most promising markets. The orders by Akasa, which is backed by billionaire investor Rakesh Jhunjhunwala, are incremental orders, a Boeing executive said on Tuesday. &#8220;Akasa Air&#8217;s order includes two variants from the 737 MAX family, including the 737-8 and the high-capacity 737-8-200,&#8221; the joint statement by Akasa Air and Boeing mentioned. Last month, SNV Aviation, which owns Akasa Air, said it expected to start flying next year after getting initial [&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":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-450156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450156","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=450156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}