{"id":466458,"date":"2022-02-05T11:06:14","date_gmt":"2022-02-05T05:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=466458"},"modified":"2022-02-05T11:52:04","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T06:22:04","slug":"rahul-bhatia-to-be-indigo-md-as-airline-to-now-expand-intl-footprint-start-longhauls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/rahul-bhatia-to-be-indigo-md-as-airline-to-now-expand-intl-footprint-start-longhauls\/","title":{"rendered":"Rahul Bhatia to be IndiGo MD as airline to now expand int&#8217;l footprint, start longhauls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Gearing up for Tata-Air India big plans, IndiGo on Friday announced it will embark on a major expansion on international longhaul routes. <\/p>\n<p>The budget carrier&#8217;s co-founder and promoter, Rahul Bhatia, has been appointed as MD to prepare for this next phase of growth. The airline quoted Bhatia as saying that his &#8220;agenda would be transformational and would focus on expanding the airline\u2019s presence in India and in international markets and building for the long term.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The airline has ordered Airbus A321 XLR (extra long range) that have a range to fly nonstop from India to European destinations like Moscow and the far east.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Gearing up for Tata-Air India big plans, IndiGo on Friday announced it will embark on a major expansion on international longhaul routes. The budget carrier&#8217;s co-founder and promoter, Rahul Bhatia, has been appointed as MD to prepare for this next phase of growth. The airline quoted Bhatia as saying that his &#8220;agenda would be transformational and would focus on expanding the airline\u2019s presence in India and in international markets and building for the long term.&#8221; The airline has ordered Airbus A321 XLR (extra long range) that have a range to fly nonstop from India to European destinations like [&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":[220,130,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-466458","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\/466458","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=466458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}