{"id":657954,"date":"2026-01-23T12:22:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T06:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=657954"},"modified":"2026-01-23T12:22:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T06:52:06","slug":"air-india-braces-for-record-1-6-billion-loss-after-ahmedabad-plane-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/air-india-braces-for-record-1-6-billion-loss-after-ahmedabad-plane-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Air India braces for record $1.6-billion loss after Ahmedabad plane crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Air India Ltd. is set to report a record annual loss after last year\u2019s deadly crash and airspace shutdowns wiped out progress toward a turnaround, according to people familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n<p>The carrier, which is a joint venture of Tata Group and Singapore Airlines Ltd., is on track to post a loss of at least \u20b915,000 crore (~$1.6 billion) for the year ending 31 March 2026, the people said. Earnings were further hit by Pakistan\u2019s closure of its airspace for Indian airlines following a military clash with India, forcing carriers to fly longer routes at higher costs to Europe and the United States, they added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Air India Ltd. is set to report a record annual loss after last year\u2019s deadly crash and airspace shutdowns wiped out progress toward a turnaround, according to people familiar with the matter. The carrier, which is a joint venture of Tata Group and Singapore Airlines Ltd., is on track to post a loss of at least \u20b915,000 crore (~$1.6 billion) for the year ending 31 March 2026, the people said. Earnings were further hit by Pakistan\u2019s closure of its airspace for Indian airlines following a military clash with India, forcing carriers to fly longer routes at higher costs to Europe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[184,141,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-657954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-hindustantimes","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657954","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}