{"id":521349,"date":"2022-09-13T09:14:37","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T03:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=521349"},"modified":"2022-09-13T09:37:58","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T04:07:58","slug":"battle-for-skies-tatas-kick-start-air-india-fleet-expansion-via-leasing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/battle-for-skies-tatas-kick-start-air-india-fleet-expansion-via-leasing\/","title":{"rendered":"Battle for skies: Tatas kick-start Air India fleet expansion via leasing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In its first move to significantly expand the fleet after the Tatas took over, Air India has leased 25 Airbus narrow-body aircraft and five Boeing wide-body planes. These will enter service starting December, the company said on Monday. A wide-body plane has a bigger fuel tank, allowing it to travel longer distances such as India-US routes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe aircraft being leased include 21 Airbus A320neos, four Airbus A321neos and five Boeing B777-200LRs,\u201d Air India said. The lessors will deliver the planes by 2023-end, helping the airline increase its fleet size to 143 aircraft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In its first move to significantly expand the fleet after the Tatas took over, Air India has leased 25 Airbus narrow-body aircraft and five Boeing wide-body planes. These will enter service starting December, the company said on Monday. A wide-body plane has a bigger fuel tank, allowing it to travel longer distances such as India-US routes. \u201cThe aircraft being leased include 21 Airbus A320neos, four Airbus A321neos and five Boeing B777-200LRs,\u201d Air India said. The lessors will deliver the planes by 2023-end, helping the airline increase its fleet size to 143 aircraft.<\/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-521349","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\/521349","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=521349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}