{"id":631477,"date":"2024-01-27T07:27:24","date_gmt":"2024-01-27T01:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=631477"},"modified":"2024-01-27T08:33:46","modified_gmt":"2024-01-27T03:03:46","slug":"akasa-air-buys-300-cfm-engines-at-list-prices-of-5-billion-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/akasa-air-buys-300-cfm-engines-at-list-prices-of-5-billion-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Akasa Air buys 300 CFM engines at list prices of $5 billion: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Akasa Air, India&#8217;s youngest low-fare carrier, has purchased over 300 engines from CFM International to power the 150 aircraft it purchased from American plane manufacturer Boeing earlier this month, according to a report by The Economic Times (ET). <\/p>\n<p>The contract for Leap-1B engines, spares, and services is estimated to be worth $5 billion at list prices. Airlines typically negotiate volume discounts for planes and engines, it said. <\/p>\n<p>Akasa&#8217;s 189-seater Boeing 737-8 Max planes are powered exclusively by CFM Leap engines. The airline currently operates 22 aircraft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Akasa Air, India&#8217;s youngest low-fare carrier, has purchased over 300 engines from CFM International to power the 150 aircraft it purchased from American plane manufacturer Boeing earlier this month, according to a report by The Economic Times (ET). The contract for Leap-1B engines, spares, and services is estimated to be worth $5 billion at list prices. Airlines typically negotiate volume discounts for planes and engines, it said. Akasa&#8217;s 189-seater Boeing 737-8 Max planes are powered exclusively by CFM Leap engines. The airline currently operates 22 aircraft.<\/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":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-631477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631477","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=631477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}