{"id":639124,"date":"2024-03-20T09:32:15","date_gmt":"2024-03-20T04:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=639124"},"modified":"2024-03-20T10:36:14","modified_gmt":"2024-03-20T05:06:14","slug":"weakness-of-air-india-supported-survival-of-airlines-around-india-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/weakness-of-air-india-supported-survival-of-airlines-around-india-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"Weakness of Air India supported survival of airlines around India: CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Airlines domiciled around India have survived due to Air India\u2019s weakness, but the carrier now has an opportunity to reclaim the market from them and transform the country into a hub for travellers, said the airline\u2019s Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director Campbell Wilson. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIndia, as a country, had 43 wide-body aircraft at the time of Air India\u2019s privatisation, while Dubai had 250, Singapore had 150, and Qatar had 175. That highlights the subscale nature of Air India and the opportunity it has to grow,\u201d Wilson said in his speech at the 45th anniversary celebrations of the chartered accountancy firm PKF Sridhar &amp; Santhanam on Monday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Airlines domiciled around India have survived due to Air India\u2019s weakness, but the carrier now has an opportunity to reclaim the market from them and transform the country into a hub for travellers, said the airline\u2019s Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director Campbell Wilson. \u201cIndia, as a country, had 43 wide-body aircraft at the time of Air India\u2019s privatisation, while Dubai had 250, Singapore had 150, and Qatar had 175. That highlights the subscale nature of Air India and the opportunity it has to grow,\u201d Wilson said in his speech at the 45th anniversary celebrations of the chartered accountancy firm [&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":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-639124","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\/639124","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=639124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}