{"id":585456,"date":"2023-06-20T09:18:41","date_gmt":"2023-06-20T03:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=585456"},"modified":"2023-06-20T09:48:26","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T04:18:26","slug":"largest-ever-aviation-deal-indigo-orders-500-airbus-a320-family-aircraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/largest-ever-aviation-deal-indigo-orders-500-airbus-a320-family-aircraft\/","title":{"rendered":"Largest-ever aviation deal: IndiGo orders 500 Airbus A320 family aircraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IndiGo, India\u2019s largest airline, on Monday placed an order for 500 A320 family planes with Airbus, making it the world\u2019s largest ever single-tranche aircraft acquisition.<\/p>\n<p>The order, for narrow-bodied planes such as A320neo, A321neo, and A321XLR, will cement its growth plans in the next decade with deliveries taking place from 2030 to 2035. <\/p>\n<p>The airline did not place any order for wide-bodied aircraft. \u201cThe engine selection for this order will be done in due course and so will be the exact mix of A320 and A321 aircraft,\u201d IndiGo stated. While IndiGo had  selected Pratt &amp; Whitney for the first batch of A320Neo aircraft, it chose CFM engines in 2019 and 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IndiGo, India\u2019s largest airline, on Monday placed an order for 500 A320 family planes with Airbus, making it the world\u2019s largest ever single-tranche aircraft acquisition. The order, for narrow-bodied planes such as A320neo, A321neo, and A321XLR, will cement its growth plans in the next decade with deliveries taking place from 2030 to 2035. The airline did not place any order for wide-bodied aircraft. \u201cThe engine selection for this order will be done in due course and so will be the exact mix of A320 and A321 aircraft,\u201d IndiGo stated. While IndiGo had selected Pratt &amp; Whitney for the first batch [&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-585456","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\/585456","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=585456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}