{"id":514113,"date":"2022-08-16T09:48:46","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T04:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=514113"},"modified":"2022-08-16T10:42:44","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T05:12:44","slug":"rakesh-jhunjhunwala-bet-big-on-akasa-said-its-take-off-changed-the-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/rakesh-jhunjhunwala-bet-big-on-akasa-said-its-take-off-changed-the-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Rakesh Jhunjhunwala bet big on Akasa, said its take-off changed the game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barely a week before his demise, Rakesh Jhunjhunwala took centre stage at the launch of Akasa Air. Wheelchair-bound but full of beans, Jhunjhunwala interacted with passengers before the airline\u2019s maiden flight from Mumbai to Ahmedabad.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are not a low-cost airline. We are a frugal airline. We would like to save money wherever possible,\u201d he told fellow passengers last Sunday, expressing hope that Akasa Air would offer comfortable service.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have changed the game. Seeing our aircraft seats, IndiGo ordered new ones,\u201d Jhunjhunwala had quipped, drawing titters from co-passengers and Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barely a week before his demise, Rakesh Jhunjhunwala took centre stage at the launch of Akasa Air. Wheelchair-bound but full of beans, Jhunjhunwala interacted with passengers before the airline\u2019s maiden flight from Mumbai to Ahmedabad. \u201cWe are not a low-cost airline. We are a frugal airline. We would like to save money wherever possible,\u201d he told fellow passengers last Sunday, expressing hope that Akasa Air would offer comfortable service. \u201cWe have changed the game. Seeing our aircraft seats, IndiGo ordered new ones,\u201d Jhunjhunwala had quipped, drawing titters from co-passengers and Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia.<\/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-514113","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\/514113","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=514113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}