{"id":537411,"date":"2022-11-21T12:57:45","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T07:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=537411"},"modified":"2022-11-21T12:57:45","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T07:27:45","slug":"tatas-work-on-plans-to-acquire-historic-order-of-aircraft-for-air-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/tatas-work-on-plans-to-acquire-historic-order-of-aircraft-for-air-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Tatas work on plans to acquire \u2018historic\u2019 order of aircraft for Air India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Tatas have drawn up ambitious plans to transform Air India \u2014 acquired by the $128-billion conglomerate in January \u2014 as it looks to add destinations and increase its market share, Campbell Wilson, managing director and CEO of the airline, said.<\/p>\n<p>Air India is in discussions with Boeing, Airbus and engine manufacturers for a \u201chistoric\u2019\u2019 order of next-generation aircraft, even as it has finalised leases for 30 additional planes that will be delivered over the next 12 months.<\/p>\n<p>Wilson said the airline has repaired nearly 20 aircraft grounded because of a lack of parts and money and introduced premium economy class in some of the long-haul international flights. He was speaking at an event organised by JRD Tata Memorial Trust on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tatas have drawn up ambitious plans to transform Air India \u2014 acquired by the $128-billion conglomerate in January \u2014 as it looks to add destinations and increase its market share, Campbell Wilson, managing director and CEO of the airline, said. Air India is in discussions with Boeing, Airbus and engine manufacturers for a \u201chistoric\u2019\u2019 order of next-generation aircraft, even as it has finalised leases for 30 additional planes that will be delivered over the next 12 months. Wilson said the airline has repaired nearly 20 aircraft grounded because of a lack of parts and money and introduced premium economy [&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":[216,130,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-537411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537411","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=537411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}