{"id":541156,"date":"2022-12-06T11:21:36","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T05:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=541156"},"modified":"2022-12-06T11:21:36","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T05:51:36","slug":"expansion-mode-air-india-to-lease-36-new-planes-almost-30-of-its-grounded-aircraft-to-fly-again-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/expansion-mode-air-india-to-lease-36-new-planes-almost-30-of-its-grounded-aircraft-to-fly-again-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"Expansion mode: Air India to lease 36 new planes, almost 30 of its grounded aircraft to fly again soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Under founder Tata Group, Air India has begun expanding its wings aggressively now. The airline on Monday announced it will lease six wide body Boeing 777-300 extended range (ER) version.<\/p>\n<p>These six aircraft, that will join by mid next year, are in addition to the 30 aircraft lease announced earlier \u2014 25 A320 family and five B777-200 long range \u2014 and will be used to add both domestic and international flights.<\/p>\n<p>In a first for AI or any Indian carrier, these six B777-300ER will have a four class configuration \u2014 first, business, premium economy and economy, and will connect Indian metro cities with international destinations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Under founder Tata Group, Air India has begun expanding its wings aggressively now. The airline on Monday announced it will lease six wide body Boeing 777-300 extended range (ER) version. These six aircraft, that will join by mid next year, are in addition to the 30 aircraft lease announced earlier \u2014 25 A320 family and five B777-200 long range \u2014 and will be used to add both domestic and international flights. In a first for AI or any Indian carrier, these six B777-300ER will have a four class configuration \u2014 first, business, premium economy and economy, and will [&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-541156","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\/541156","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=541156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}