{"id":556309,"date":"2023-02-17T11:28:31","date_gmt":"2023-02-17T05:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=556309"},"modified":"2023-02-17T11:28:31","modified_gmt":"2023-02-17T05:58:31","slug":"set-to-connect-india-non-stop-to-every-major-city-soon-air-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/set-to-connect-india-non-stop-to-every-major-city-soon-air-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Set to connect India non-stop to every major city soon: Air India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Air India\u2019s historic order for 470 aircraft \u2014 400 single aisles and 70 wide bodies \u2014 is actually much bigger \u2014 at 840 planes and will be able to \u201cconnect India nonstop to every major city in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>AI chief commercial and transformation officer Nipun Aggarwal, one of the key architects of this order, said \u201cthe order comprises of 470 firm aircraft, 370 options and purchase rights to be procured from Airbus and Boeing over the next decade.\u201d An option, given when placing firm order for aircraft, allows an airline to purchase additional aircraft in the future at an agreed price and date.<\/p>\n<p>The 840 figure factors in the need to phase out AI\u2019s old fleet whose poor interiors have over the years a major pain point for passengers, In its last years as a state-owned airline, AI suffered from any lack of investment on upkeep of cabin interiors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Air India\u2019s historic order for 470 aircraft \u2014 400 single aisles and 70 wide bodies \u2014 is actually much bigger \u2014 at 840 planes and will be able to \u201cconnect India nonstop to every major city in the world.\u201d AI chief commercial and transformation officer Nipun Aggarwal, one of the key architects of this order, said \u201cthe order comprises of 470 firm aircraft, 370 options and purchase rights to be procured from Airbus and Boeing over the next decade.\u201d An option, given when placing firm order for aircraft, allows an airline to purchase additional aircraft in the future [&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-556309","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\/556309","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=556309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}