{"id":614974,"date":"2023-11-04T11:21:45","date_gmt":"2023-11-04T05:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=614974"},"modified":"2023-11-04T11:21:45","modified_gmt":"2023-11-04T05:51:45","slug":"troublesome-engines-dgca-asks-pratt-to-have-mro-in-india-company-exploring-feasibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/troublesome-engines-dgca-asks-pratt-to-have-mro-in-india-company-exploring-feasibility\/","title":{"rendered":"Troublesome engines: DGCA asks Pratt to have MRO in India; company \u2018exploring\u2019 feasibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: With Pratt &amp; Whitney engine issues showing no signs of abating, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has strongly asked the company to have a maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) facility in India at the earliest.<\/p>\n<p>While new generation PW engines for the Airbus A320neo family of planes \u2014 used by IndiGo and erstwhile GoAir \u2014 have been having a series of issues for last 5-6 years now, the worst impact is likely to be felt soon with hundreds of these engines going to be grounded for checks globally.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, IndiGo \u2014 which already has about 50 planes grounded for months awaiting PW replacement engines \u2014 said it expects a high number of planes on ground from early next year due to PW\u2019s latest issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: With Pratt &amp; Whitney engine issues showing no signs of abating, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has strongly asked the company to have a maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) facility in India at the earliest. While new generation PW engines for the Airbus A320neo family of planes \u2014 used by IndiGo and erstwhile GoAir \u2014 have been having a series of issues for last 5-6 years now, the worst impact is likely to be felt soon with hundreds of these engines going to be grounded for checks globally. On Friday, IndiGo \u2014 which already has about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"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-614974","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\/614974","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}