{"id":627492,"date":"2024-01-10T10:55:50","date_gmt":"2024-01-10T05:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=627492"},"modified":"2024-01-10T12:11:35","modified_gmt":"2024-01-10T06:41:35","slug":"air-india-vistara-merger-expected-to-be-complete-by-mid-2025-vinod-kannan-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/air-india-vistara-merger-expected-to-be-complete-by-mid-2025-vinod-kannan-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Air India-Vistara merger expected to be complete by mid-2025: Vinod Kannan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Full-service carrier Vistara&#8217;s proposed merger with Air India is expected to be completed by mid-2025, and all legal approvals for the transaction are anticipated by the middle of this year, a top executive said on Monday. <\/p>\n<p>Asserting that it is going to be a &#8216;merger for growth&#8217;, Vistara CEO Vinod Kannan said it would look to take the airline&#8217;s consumer-focussed services, operational excellence and staff into the merged entity. <\/p>\n<p>In November 2022, the Tata Group announced the merger of Vistara with Air India under a deal wherein Singapore Airlines will also acquire a 25.1 per cent stake in Air India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Full-service carrier Vistara&#8217;s proposed merger with Air India is expected to be completed by mid-2025, and all legal approvals for the transaction are anticipated by the middle of this year, a top executive said on Monday. Asserting that it is going to be a &#8216;merger for growth&#8217;, Vistara CEO Vinod Kannan said it would look to take the airline&#8217;s consumer-focussed services, operational excellence and staff into the merged entity. In November 2022, the Tata Group announced the merger of Vistara with Air India under a deal wherein Singapore Airlines will also acquire a 25.1 per cent stake in [&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-627492","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\/627492","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=627492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}