{"id":585623,"date":"2023-06-20T11:31:51","date_gmt":"2023-06-20T06:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=585623"},"modified":"2023-06-20T11:31:51","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T06:01:51","slug":"historic-milestone-indigo-places-landmark-order-for-500-airbus-aircraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/historic-milestone-indigo-places-landmark-order-for-500-airbus-aircraft\/","title":{"rendered":"Historic Milestone: IndiGo places landmark order for 500 Airbus aircraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s largest airline IndiGo said on Monday it has placed an order for 500 Airbus A320 Family aircraft, the biggest-ever single aircraft purchase by any airline with Airbus and this eclipses Tata-owned Air India&#8217;s record 470 aircraft order set in March.<\/p>\n<p>The record deal looks to further boost IndiGo&#8217;s leadership in India, the third largest aviation market, and also fuel expansion in international destinations. Moreover, air travel has rebounded from pandemic-led gloom and the Asian nation is seeing rapid increase in consumer spending and fondness for taking flights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s largest airline IndiGo said on Monday it has placed an order for 500 Airbus A320 Family aircraft, the biggest-ever single aircraft purchase by any airline with Airbus and this eclipses Tata-owned Air India&#8217;s record 470 aircraft order set in March. The record deal looks to further boost IndiGo&#8217;s leadership in India, the third largest aviation market, and also fuel expansion in international destinations. Moreover, air travel has rebounded from pandemic-led gloom and the Asian nation is seeing rapid increase in consumer spending and fondness for taking flights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,130,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-585623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585623","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}