{"id":594994,"date":"2023-08-01T10:35:13","date_gmt":"2023-08-01T05:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=594994"},"modified":"2023-08-01T12:26:00","modified_gmt":"2023-08-01T06:56:00","slug":"pw-engine-woes-may-lead-to-aircraft-shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/pw-engine-woes-may-lead-to-aircraft-shortage\/","title":{"rendered":"P&amp;W engine woes may lead to aircraft shortage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The aircraft capacity crunch may worsen and lead to even higher airfares ahead of the festive season. The reason: Yet another trouble with Pratt &amp; Whitney&#8217;s (P&amp;W&#8217;s) snag-ridden geared turbofan (GTF) engines that power the Airbus 321neo and have almost 50 IndiGo planes grounded apart from the once 60-aircraft strong GoFirst.<\/p>\n<p>DGCA last Friday held a video conference with its American counterpart, Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), and P&amp;W on the latest in a series of GTF&#8217;s unending snags. Sources said P&amp;W told the Indian regulator it will issue technical guidance on the latest trouble in early August. The issue relates to microscopic contaminants being found in a metal used in parts of the engine&#8217;s core.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The aircraft capacity crunch may worsen and lead to even higher airfares ahead of the festive season. The reason: Yet another trouble with Pratt &amp; Whitney&#8217;s (P&amp;W&#8217;s) snag-ridden geared turbofan (GTF) engines that power the Airbus 321neo and have almost 50 IndiGo planes grounded apart from the once 60-aircraft strong GoFirst. DGCA last Friday held a video conference with its American counterpart, Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), and P&amp;W on the latest in a series of GTF&#8217;s unending snags. Sources said P&amp;W told the Indian regulator it will issue technical guidance on the latest trouble in early August. The [&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":[220,130,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-594994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594994","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=594994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}