{"id":563951,"date":"2023-03-21T09:39:38","date_gmt":"2023-03-21T04:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=563951"},"modified":"2023-03-21T10:04:05","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T04:34:05","slug":"air-india-confident-on-funding-for-worlds-biggest-aircraft-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/air-india-confident-on-funding-for-worlds-biggest-aircraft-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Air India confident on funding for world&#8217;s biggest aircraft deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Air India Ltd. is in talks with banks to help fund its recently announced record aircraft order, benefitting from the support of new owner Tata Sons Ltd., the carrier\u2019s chief executive officer said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have the backing of Tata Sons, so there is financing available for these aircraft,\u201d CEO Campbell Wilson said in an interview with Bloomberg News on the sidelines of the CAPA India Aviation Summit in New Delhi on Monday. \u201cWe have already made some downpayments for these aircraft from our internal funds.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Air India has placed an order of 470 aircraft from both Boeing Co. and Airbus SE, with deliveries due to start from the end of this year. Discounts are common for such large purchases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Air India Ltd. is in talks with banks to help fund its recently announced record aircraft order, benefitting from the support of new owner Tata Sons Ltd., the carrier\u2019s chief executive officer said. \u201cWe have the backing of Tata Sons, so there is financing available for these aircraft,\u201d CEO Campbell Wilson said in an interview with Bloomberg News on the sidelines of the CAPA India Aviation Summit in New Delhi on Monday. \u201cWe have already made some downpayments for these aircraft from our internal funds.\u201d Air India has placed an order of 470 aircraft from both Boeing Co. and Airbus [&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":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-563951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563951","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=563951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}