{"id":537437,"date":"2022-11-21T10:57:04","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T05:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=537437"},"modified":"2022-11-21T13:29:27","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T07:59:27","slug":"air-india-in-talks-with-airbus-boeing-for-historic-order-to-buy-planes-says-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/air-india-in-talks-with-airbus-boeing-for-historic-order-to-buy-planes-says-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"Air India in talks with Airbus, Boeing for &#8216;historic order&#8217; 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&#8217;s 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&#8217;s financials and improve service levels, industry analysts say. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are in deep discussion with Boeing, Airbus and engine manufacturers for a historic order of the latest generation aircraft that will power Air India&#8217;s medium- and long-term growth,&#8221; Campbell Wilson, the airline&#8217;s 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&#8217;s 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&#8217;s financials and improve service levels, industry analysts say. &#8220;We are in deep discussion with Boeing, Airbus and engine manufacturers for a historic order of the latest generation aircraft that will power Air India&#8217;s medium- and long-term growth,&#8221; 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":[176,146,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-537437","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\/537437","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=537437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}