{"id":592637,"date":"2023-07-22T11:10:25","date_gmt":"2023-07-22T05:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=592637"},"modified":"2023-07-22T11:10:25","modified_gmt":"2023-07-22T05:40:25","slug":"one-third-of-wide-body-fleet-to-have-modern-seats-inflight-entertainment-systems-by-march-next-year-air-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/one-third-of-wide-body-fleet-to-have-modern-seats-inflight-entertainment-systems-by-march-next-year-air-india\/","title":{"rendered":"One third of wide body fleet to have modern seats, inflight entertainment systems by March next year: Air India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Loss-making Air India, which has embarked on a transformation plan, on Friday said that a third of its wide-body fleet will have modern seats and inflight entertainment systems by March 2024. Earlier this year, the Tata Group-owned airline placed orders for 470 aircraft, including 70 wide-body ones, with Airbus and Boeing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;By the end of this financial year, the six new A350s, together with the 5 leased B772LRs and 9 other B773ERs we&#8217;re also inducting, will mean that our wide-body fleet will have grown in size by 30 per cent within a year,&#8221; Air India CEO and MD Campbell Wilson said in his weekly message to the staff on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Loss-making Air India, which has embarked on a transformation plan, on Friday said that a third of its wide-body fleet will have modern seats and inflight entertainment systems by March 2024. Earlier this year, the Tata Group-owned airline placed orders for 470 aircraft, including 70 wide-body ones, with Airbus and Boeing. &#8220;By the end of this financial year, the six new A350s, together with the 5 leased B772LRs and 9 other B773ERs we&#8217;re also inducting, will mean that our wide-body fleet will have grown in size by 30 per cent within a year,&#8221; Air India CEO and MD Campbell Wilson [&hellip;]<\/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-592637","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\/592637","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=592637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}