{"id":537081,"date":"2022-11-19T11:32:27","date_gmt":"2022-11-19T06:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=537081"},"modified":"2022-11-19T11:32:27","modified_gmt":"2022-11-19T06:02:27","slug":"flybig-aims-to-equip-its-twin-otter-400-series-aircraft-with-zero-emission-propulsion-technologies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/flybig-aims-to-equip-its-twin-otter-400-series-aircraft-with-zero-emission-propulsion-technologies\/","title":{"rendered":"flybig aims to equip its Twin Otter 400 Series aircraft with zero emission propulsion technologies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Regional carrier flybig has signed an agreement with UK-based MONTE Aircraft Leasing Limited (MONTE), to explore the conversion of its De Havilland Canada Twin Otter 400 Series aircraft to zero emission propulsion technologies. Two Twin Otter 400 Series aircraft will be leased from MONTE, which will be deployed on RCS-UDAN routes in UP and Uttarakhand.<\/p>\n<p>flybig had this March signed a letter of intent with De Havilland Aircraft of Canada, to acquire 10 Twin Otter Series 400 aircraft to serve small and remote regions of India. flybig has received 28 routes under UDAN Scheme 4.2.1 to operate its Twin Otter 400 Series aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>flybig CMD Saanjay Mandavia said: \u201cWe are committed towards a zero emission fleet and to reduce carbon emissions in air transportation in India. Signing an agreement with MONTE is a crucial step in shrinking our fleet\u2019s carbon footprint&#8230; (Will) also reduce the cost of flying with flybig.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Regional carrier flybig has signed an agreement with UK-based MONTE Aircraft Leasing Limited (MONTE), to explore the conversion of its De Havilland Canada Twin Otter 400 Series aircraft to zero emission propulsion technologies. Two Twin Otter 400 Series aircraft will be leased from MONTE, which will be deployed on RCS-UDAN routes in UP and Uttarakhand. flybig had this March signed a letter of intent with De Havilland Aircraft of Canada, to acquire 10 Twin Otter Series 400 aircraft to serve small and remote regions of India. flybig has received 28 routes under UDAN Scheme 4.2.1 to operate its [&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-537081","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\/537081","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=537081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}