{"id":650342,"date":"2025-10-29T08:27:31","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T02:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=650342"},"modified":"2025-10-29T09:02:33","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T03:32:33","slug":"air-india-express-in-expansion-mode-amid-rising-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/air-india-express-in-expansion-mode-amid-rising-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Air India Express in expansion mode amid rising competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: Air India Express would add 20-24 aircraft to its fleet in CY26, its chief executive said on Tuesday. The Tata-owned low-cost carrier would also retrofit 50 of its Boeing 737-8 aircraft, as competition in the budget end of the aviation industry intensifies. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;By calendar year 2026, we expect to have added between 20 and 24 aircraft to our fleet,&#8221; Aloke Singh, Air India Express managing director said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: Air India Express would add 20-24 aircraft to its fleet in CY26, its chief executive said on Tuesday. The Tata-owned low-cost carrier would also retrofit 50 of its Boeing 737-8 aircraft, as competition in the budget end of the aviation industry intensifies. &#8220;By calendar year 2026, we expect to have added between 20 and 24 aircraft to our fleet,&#8221; Aloke Singh, Air India Express managing director said.<\/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":[192,130,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-650342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650342","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=650342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}