{"id":626242,"date":"2024-01-04T10:01:05","date_gmt":"2024-01-04T04:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=626242"},"modified":"2024-01-04T12:16:49","modified_gmt":"2024-01-04T06:46:49","slug":"akasa-air-expansion-plans-report-says-budget-carrier-eyeing-to-acquire-150-boeing-737-max-planes-details-inside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/akasa-air-expansion-plans-report-says-budget-carrier-eyeing-to-acquire-150-boeing-737-max-planes-details-inside\/","title":{"rendered":"Akasa Air expansion plans? Report says budget carrier eyeing to acquire 150 Boeing 737 MAX planes \u2013 Details inside"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s budget carrier Akasa Air is in the process of acquiring 150 Boeing 737 MAX narrowbody planes, news agency Reuters reported on Tuesday. The airlines\u2019 move is the latest bid to tap the travel boom in the world\u2019s fastest-growing aviation market.<\/p>\n<p>Presently, contract negotiations are ongoing, and a deal is expected to be announced at Wings India, the country\u2019s largest civil aviation event scheduled for January 18-21, the news agency mentioned.<\/p>\n<p>Importantly, the mega deal comes on top of Akasa\u2019s existing order book for 76 Boeing 737 MAX planes. Earlier the airline had placed an order for 76 Boeing airplanes, powered by CFM fuel-efficient, LEAP-1B engines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s budget carrier Akasa Air is in the process of acquiring 150 Boeing 737 MAX narrowbody planes, news agency Reuters reported on Tuesday. The airlines\u2019 move is the latest bid to tap the travel boom in the world\u2019s fastest-growing aviation market. Presently, contract negotiations are ongoing, and a deal is expected to be announced at Wings India, the country\u2019s largest civil aviation event scheduled for January 18-21, the news agency mentioned. Importantly, the mega deal comes on top of Akasa\u2019s existing order book for 76 Boeing 737 MAX planes. Earlier the airline had placed an order for 76 Boeing airplanes, [&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":[196,130,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-626242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626242","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=626242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}