{"id":529707,"date":"2022-10-14T12:13:13","date_gmt":"2022-10-14T06:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=529707"},"modified":"2022-10-14T12:13:13","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T06:43:13","slug":"singapore-airlines-confirms-talks-on-with-tata-for-merging-vistara-with-air-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/singapore-airlines-confirms-talks-on-with-tata-for-merging-vistara-with-air-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Singapore Airlines confirms talks on with Tata for merging Vistara with Air India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Air India will soon join the league of global airlines like Lufthansa and Air France-KLM combine that have both full service and budget products within the same entity, with the no frill model being mostly for shorter routes. Singapore Airlines (SIA) on Thursday for the first time confirmed it is in talks with Tata Group for a \u201cpotential integration\u201d of Vistara with Air India.<\/p>\n<p>This came two days after Tata Sons chairman N Chandrasekaran said he wants a single airline with two platforms \u2014 meaning full service by integrating Vistara with AI and budget by merging AirAsia India (AAIPL) into AI Express.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will have both\u2014 full services and low cost services\u2014but we want to make it a world leading airline of scale, where Indians are able to fly everywhere. That&#8217;s the goal, it\u2019s a long journey,\u201d Chandrasekaran had said on Tuesday (October 11) promising a wide global network to Indian globetrotters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Air India will soon join the league of global airlines like Lufthansa and Air France-KLM combine that have both full service and budget products within the same entity, with the no frill model being mostly for shorter routes. Singapore Airlines (SIA) on Thursday for the first time confirmed it is in talks with Tata Group for a \u201cpotential integration\u201d of Vistara with Air India. This came two days after Tata Sons chairman N Chandrasekaran said he wants a single airline with two platforms \u2014 meaning full service by integrating Vistara with AI and budget by merging AirAsia 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-529707","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\/529707","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=529707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}