{"id":555724,"date":"2023-02-15T10:35:22","date_gmt":"2023-02-15T05:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=555724"},"modified":"2023-02-15T12:21:06","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T06:51:06","slug":"modi-macron-biden-announce-470-airbus-boeing-planes-for-air-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/modi-macron-biden-announce-470-airbus-boeing-planes-for-air-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Modi, Macron, Biden announce: 470 Airbus, Boeing planes for Air India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi, US President Joe Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron took the lead Tuesday in announcing Air India\u2019s order for 470 new aircraft \u2013 250 from Airbus and 220 from Boeing \u2013 and underlined that the agreements will deepen \u201cour partnership\u201d further.<\/p>\n<p>Of the 470 aircraft for Tata Group-owned Air India, 70 will be wide-body planes for long-haul flights.<\/p>\n<p>The airline signed letters of intent with Airbus and Boeing, making it the largest-ever pipeline of new aircraft ordered by an Indian airline. <\/p>\n<p>Air India and Airbus announced the deal at a virtual event attended by Modi and Macron. Calling it a \u201clandmark agreement\u201d, Modi said it was an \u201cimportant achievement\u201d for the India-France strategic partnership.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi, US President Joe Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron took the lead Tuesday in announcing Air India\u2019s order for 470 new aircraft \u2013 250 from Airbus and 220 from Boeing \u2013 and underlined that the agreements will deepen \u201cour partnership\u201d further. Of the 470 aircraft for Tata Group-owned Air India, 70 will be wide-body planes for long-haul flights. The airline signed letters of intent with Airbus and Boeing, making it the largest-ever pipeline of new aircraft ordered by an Indian airline. Air India and Airbus announced the deal at a virtual event attended by Modi and [&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-555724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555724","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=555724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}