{"id":556487,"date":"2023-02-17T12:36:58","date_gmt":"2023-02-17T07:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=556487"},"modified":"2023-02-17T13:15:31","modified_gmt":"2023-02-17T07:45:31","slug":"air-india-ordered-840-planes-including-370-optional-buys-from-airbus-boeing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/air-india-ordered-840-planes-including-370-optional-buys-from-airbus-boeing\/","title":{"rendered":"Air India ordered 840 planes, including 370 optional buys, from Airbus, Boeing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Air India has ordered a total of 840 planes from Airbus and Boeing including 370 optional buys, said Nipun Aggarwal, chief commercial officer of the airline, said, in his social media post on Thursday. &#8220;The order comprises 470 firm aircraft, 370 options and purchase rights to be procured from Airbus and Boeing over the next decade. The Airbus firm order comprises 210 A-320\/321 Neo\/XLR and 40 A350-900\/1000. The Boeing firm order comprises 190 737-Max, 20 787s and 10 777s. We have also signed up for long-term maintenance of the engines with CFM International, Rolls- Royce and GE Aerospace,&#8221; he said on LinkedIn.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is indeed a landmark moment in the history of Air India and Indian aviation. This order of 840 aircraft has been a culmination of a fascinating journey that began almost two years ago starting with the Air India privatisation process.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Air India has ordered a total of 840 planes from Airbus and Boeing including 370 optional buys, said Nipun Aggarwal, chief commercial officer of the airline, said, in his social media post on Thursday. &#8220;The order comprises 470 firm aircraft, 370 options and purchase rights to be procured from Airbus and Boeing over the next decade. The Airbus firm order comprises 210 A-320\/321 Neo\/XLR and 40 A350-900\/1000. The Boeing firm order comprises 190 737-Max, 20 787s and 10 777s. We have also signed up for long-term maintenance of the engines with CFM International, Rolls- Royce and GE Aerospace,&#8221; he said [&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":[184,141,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-556487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-hindustantimes","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556487","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=556487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}