{"id":537341,"date":"2022-11-21T10:20:31","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T04:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=537341"},"modified":"2022-11-21T11:58:24","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T06:28:24","slug":"air-india-in-talks-with-airbus-boeing-to-buy-planes-says-ceo-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/air-india-in-talks-with-airbus-boeing-to-buy-planes-says-ceo-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Air India in talks with Airbus, Boeing to buy planes, says CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tata Group-owned Air India is in talks with Boeing and Airbus about ordering new aircraft and is meeting its immediate needs by leasing planes and repairing grounded aircraft, the airline\u2019s chief executive said on Saturday. <\/p>\n<p>The autos-to-steel conglomerate, which completed its purchase of Air India in January, faces an uphill struggle to upgrade an ageing fleet, turn around the company\u2019s financials and improve service levels, industry analysts say. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are in deep discussion with Boeing, Airbus and engine manufacturers for a historic order of the latest generation aircraft that will power Air India\u2019s medium- and long-term growth,\u201d Campbell Wilson, the airline\u2019s chief executive, said at a Tata corporate event in Mumbai.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tata Group-owned Air India is in talks with Boeing and Airbus about ordering new aircraft and is meeting its immediate needs by leasing planes and repairing grounded aircraft, the airline\u2019s chief executive said on Saturday. The autos-to-steel conglomerate, which completed its purchase of Air India in January, faces an uphill struggle to upgrade an ageing fleet, turn around the company\u2019s financials and improve service levels, industry analysts say. \u201cWe are in deep discussion with Boeing, Airbus and engine manufacturers for a historic order of the latest generation aircraft that will power Air India\u2019s medium- and long-term growth,\u201d Campbell Wilson, the [&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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-537341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537341","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=537341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}