{"id":530089,"date":"2022-10-15T10:35:04","date_gmt":"2022-10-15T05:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=530089"},"modified":"2022-10-15T12:17:24","modified_gmt":"2022-10-15T06:47:24","slug":"air-india-in-talks-with-aircraft-makers-to-buy-planes-says-cfo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/air-india-in-talks-with-aircraft-makers-to-buy-planes-says-cfo\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Air India in talks with aircraft makers to buy planes,&#8217; says CFO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Air India is in discussions with aircraft manufacturers for acquiring planes as the Tata group-owned airline plans to expand its fleet by three times compared to the current size, a senior executive said on Friday. <\/p>\n<p>Air India Chief Financial Officer Vinod Hejmadi also said the airline is currently in the &#8220;taxiing phase&#8221; and it will take two years before it takes off, consolidates and enters the growth mode.<\/p>\n<p>Since taking over Air India in January this year, Tatas have unveiled a comprehensive transformation plan for reviving the loss-making airline. The plan focuses on five factors &#8212; industry leadership, robust operations, commercial efficiency, industry best-talent and exceptional customer experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Air India is in discussions with aircraft manufacturers for acquiring planes as the Tata group-owned airline plans to expand its fleet by three times compared to the current size, a senior executive said on Friday. Air India Chief Financial Officer Vinod Hejmadi also said the airline is currently in the &#8220;taxiing phase&#8221; and it will take two years before it takes off, consolidates and enters the growth mode. Since taking over Air India in January this year, Tatas have unveiled a comprehensive transformation plan for reviving the loss-making airline. The plan focuses on five factors &#8212; industry leadership, robust operations, [&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":[176,146,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-530089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530089","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=530089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}