{"id":450967,"date":"2021-11-22T10:56:57","date_gmt":"2021-11-22T05:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=450967"},"modified":"2021-11-22T10:56:57","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T05:26:57","slug":"spicejet-resumes-passenger-flights-on-boeing-737-max-after-2-5-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/spicejet-resumes-passenger-flights-on-boeing-737-max-after-2-5-years\/","title":{"rendered":"SpiceJet resumes passenger flights on Boeing 737 Max after 2.5 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Boeing 737 Max on Saturday resumed flying passengers in India after 2.5 years. &#8220;SpiceJet has resumed operating scheduled commercial flights from Saturday using the Max,&#8221; said a top aviation official. The Gurgaon-based airline \u201corganised a special flight for employees\u201d on Saturday to Varanasi, said its spokesman \u2014 marking the first flight with passengers since March 2019.<br \/>\nThe aircraft will now be used for regular flights anytime now by SpiceJet, the only Indian carrier that has Max at the moment which had conducted an \u201coperational readiness\u201d flight on a Max Friday. SpiceJet had 13 leased Max in India when the planes were globally grounded in March 2019. The required hardware and software modifications were carried out on them.and they will soon start flying commercially.<br \/>\nBillionaire investor Rakesh Jhunjhunwala\u2019s Akasa has ordered 72 B737 Max which it will start getting in time for the planned launch in the summer of 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Boeing 737 Max on Saturday resumed flying passengers in India after 2.5 years. &#8220;SpiceJet has resumed operating scheduled commercial flights from Saturday using the Max,&#8221; said a top aviation official. The Gurgaon-based airline \u201corganised a special flight for employees\u201d on Saturday to Varanasi, said its spokesman \u2014 marking the first flight with passengers since March 2019. The aircraft will now be used for regular flights anytime now by SpiceJet, the only Indian carrier that has Max at the moment which had conducted an \u201coperational readiness\u201d flight on a Max Friday. SpiceJet had 13 leased Max in India [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,130,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-450967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450967","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}