{"id":616077,"date":"2023-11-08T10:22:33","date_gmt":"2023-11-08T04:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=616077"},"modified":"2023-11-08T12:03:57","modified_gmt":"2023-11-08T06:33:57","slug":"indigo-sees-more-groundings-in-q4-due-to-pratt-engines-powder-metal-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indigo-sees-more-groundings-in-q4-due-to-pratt-engines-powder-metal-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"IndiGo sees more groundings in Q4 due to Pratt engines&#8217; powder metal issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IndiGo, India&#8217;s top airline by market share, said on Tuesday it expects groundings in &#8220;mid-30s&#8221; in the fourth quarter due to a powder metal issue in Pratt &amp; Whitney engines, days after it said about 40 planes were already grounded for the same issue.<\/p>\n<p>Pratt &amp; Whitney parent RTX said in July a rare powder metal defect could lead to the cracking of some engine components in the twin-engined Airbus A320neo, and called for accelerated inspections.<\/p>\n<p>The checks are expected to lead to groundings of 600-700 of Airbus jets between 2023 and 2026, with two-thirds of the engine removals planned for 2023 and early 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IndiGo, India&#8217;s top airline by market share, said on Tuesday it expects groundings in &#8220;mid-30s&#8221; in the fourth quarter due to a powder metal issue in Pratt &amp; Whitney engines, days after it said about 40 planes were already grounded for the same issue. Pratt &amp; Whitney parent RTX said in July a rare powder metal defect could lead to the cracking of some engine components in the twin-engined Airbus A320neo, and called for accelerated inspections. The checks are expected to lead to groundings of 600-700 of Airbus jets between 2023 and 2026, with two-thirds of the engine removals planned [&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":[176,146,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-616077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616077","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=616077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}