{"id":62966,"date":"2016-04-06T11:54:32","date_gmt":"2016-04-06T11:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=62966"},"modified":"2016-04-06T11:54:32","modified_gmt":"2016-04-06T11:54:32","slug":"tap-portugal-named-as-launch-operator-for-airbus-a330neo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/tap-portugal-named-as-launch-operator-for-airbus-a330neo\/","title":{"rendered":"TAP Portugal named as launch operator for Airbus A330neo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAP Portugal will be the first airline to fly the Airbus A330neo, the latest version of the planemaker&#8217;s current generation of wide-body jets, the companies said on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>The aircraft, a revamped and more fuel-efficient version of the A330 with new Rolls-Royce Trent 7000 engines, is due to enter service in late 2017. <\/p>\n<p>TAP ordered 14 of the jets as part of a wider fleet reorganisation last year. <\/p>\n<p>The Portuguese airline will also be the first to take a new cabin layout called &#8220;Airspace,&#8221; being showcased at an industry event in Hamburg this week. <\/p>\n<p>The design allows airlines to add more seats, Airbus said last month. <\/p>\n<p>Airbus launched the 250-300-seat A330neo in 2014 partly to plug a gap left by disappointing sales of the smallest version of its newer A350 series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TAP Portugal will be the first airline to fly the Airbus A330neo, the latest version of the planemaker&#8217;s current generation of wide-body jets, the companies said on Wednesday. The aircraft, a revamped and more fuel-efficient version of the A330 with new Rolls-Royce Trent 7000 engines, is due to enter service in late 2017. TAP ordered 14 of the jets as part of a wider fleet reorganisation last year. The Portuguese airline will also be the first to take a new cabin layout called &#8220;Airspace,&#8221; being showcased at an industry event in Hamburg this week. The design allows airlines to add [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[229],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62966","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}