{"id":500030,"date":"2022-06-22T10:38:54","date_gmt":"2022-06-22T05:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=500030"},"modified":"2022-06-22T11:36:04","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T06:06:04","slug":"akasa-airs-first-boeing-aircraft-lands-at-igi-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/akasa-airs-first-boeing-aircraft-lands-at-igi-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"Akasa Air\u2019s first Boeing aircraft lands at IGI airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Billionaire investor Rakesh Jhunjhunwala-promoted Akasa Air on Tuesday received its first plane from American aerospace company Boeing.<\/p>\n<p>Boeing\u2019s 737 Max aircraft, which flew from Seattle, touched down at Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi this morning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe delivery of Akasa Air\u2019s first aircraft brings the airline closer to obtaining its Air Operator\u2019s Permit (AOP), which is required for it to launch commercial operations in the country,\u201d Akasa Air said in a statement. <\/p>\n<p>Akasa Air, which is also backed by aviation veterans Vinay Dube and Aditya Ghosh, had signed a deal with aerospace giant Boeing to purchase 72 MAX planes last year in November. The low-cost carrier is expecting the delivery of 18 aircraft by March next year and the remaining 54 aeroplanes by 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billionaire investor Rakesh Jhunjhunwala-promoted Akasa Air on Tuesday received its first plane from American aerospace company Boeing. Boeing\u2019s 737 Max aircraft, which flew from Seattle, touched down at Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi this morning. \u201cThe delivery of Akasa Air\u2019s first aircraft brings the airline closer to obtaining its Air Operator\u2019s Permit (AOP), which is required for it to launch commercial operations in the country,\u201d Akasa Air said in a statement. Akasa Air, which is also backed by aviation veterans Vinay Dube and Aditya Ghosh, had signed a deal with aerospace giant Boeing to purchase 72 MAX planes [&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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-500030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500030","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=500030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}