{"id":537305,"date":"2022-11-21T11:18:06","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T05:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=537305"},"modified":"2022-11-21T11:18:06","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T05:48:06","slug":"historic-aircraft-order-substantial-investment-a-gross-understatement-soon-for-air-india-wilson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/historic-aircraft-order-substantial-investment-a-gross-understatement-soon-for-air-india-wilson\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Historic aircraft order\u2019 &amp; \u2018substantial investment, a gross understatement,\u2019 soon for Air India: Wilson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Tatas will soon place a \u201chistoric order\u201d for latest aircraft for its newest-oldest family member \u2014 Air India \u2014 which returned to its fold this January nearly after seven decades. The airline\u2019s CEO-MD Campbell Wilson on Saturday gave a glimpse of the mega passenger-friendly Maharaja in the works, fittingly at an event organised in Mumbai by the JRD Tata Memorial Trust to mark the 118th birth anniversary of the father of Indian aviation and Air India founder.<\/p>\n<p>The Tatas are working on a tech-tonic shift in five years for Air India by ensuring a big fleet with comfortable interiors and wide global network with a great frequent flyer programme and focus on safety &amp; on time performance to rebuild its loyal customer base. While they have announced merger of AirAsia India with Air India Express to have a big budget arm for the Maharaja, a similar announcement for merging Vistara with Air India is expected any time now to create a mega full service carrier. So one airline, Air India, will have both a budget and full service arm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Tatas will soon place a \u201chistoric order\u201d for latest aircraft for its newest-oldest family member \u2014 Air India \u2014 which returned to its fold this January nearly after seven decades. The airline\u2019s CEO-MD Campbell Wilson on Saturday gave a glimpse of the mega passenger-friendly Maharaja in the works, fittingly at an event organised in Mumbai by the JRD Tata Memorial Trust to mark the 118th birth anniversary of the father of Indian aviation and Air India founder. The Tatas are working on a tech-tonic shift in five years for Air India by ensuring a big fleet with comfortable [&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-537305","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\/537305","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=537305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}