{"id":642183,"date":"2024-04-23T08:02:54","date_gmt":"2024-04-23T02:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=642183"},"modified":"2024-04-23T09:14:42","modified_gmt":"2024-04-23T03:44:42","slug":"air-india-staff-bids-adieu-to-one-of-its-last-boeing-747s-from-mumbai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/air-india-staff-bids-adieu-to-one-of-its-last-boeing-747s-from-mumbai\/","title":{"rendered":"Air India staff bids adieu to one of its last Boeing 747s from Mumbai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday morning, Air India staff at the city airport waved goodbye to one of their last &#8216;Queen of the Skies&#8217; &#8212; the iconic Boeing 747 aircraft that served the airline for almost five decades operating commercial, VVIP and evacuation flights. <\/p>\n<p>As the double-decker plane took to the Mumbai skies enroute to the US, a &#8216;wing wave&#8217; maneuver also marked the end of an era for Air India, which started flying in 1932 and is now owned by the Tata Group. <\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Wing wave&#8217; is a dip of the aircraft from one side to the other in the air that is generally done for retiring aircraft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday morning, Air India staff at the city airport waved goodbye to one of their last &#8216;Queen of the Skies&#8217; &#8212; the iconic Boeing 747 aircraft that served the airline for almost five decades operating commercial, VVIP and evacuation flights. As the double-decker plane took to the Mumbai skies enroute to the US, a &#8216;wing wave&#8217; maneuver also marked the end of an era for Air India, which started flying in 1932 and is now owned by the Tata Group. &#8216;Wing wave&#8217; is a dip of the aircraft from one side to the other in the air that is [&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-642183","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\/642183","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=642183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}