{"id":31325,"date":"2018-05-17T12:38:46","date_gmt":"2018-05-17T12:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=31325"},"modified":"2018-05-17T12:38:46","modified_gmt":"2018-05-17T12:38:46","slug":"air-india-to-phase-out-remaining-3-classic-a320s-by-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/air-india-to-phase-out-remaining-3-classic-a320s-by-december\/","title":{"rendered":"Air India to phase out remaining 3 Classic A320s by December"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai,<br \/>\nDisinvestment-bound flag carrier Air India will phase out its remaining three Classic A320 planes, which are nearly three decade old, from the fleet by the end of this year.<\/p>\n<p>The airline had in April 2014 announced its plans to retire all 14 single-isle double-bogey wheel planes from its fleet in a phased manner after it decided to induct more fuel-efficient Airbus A320 neo planes into operations.<\/p>\n<p>Air India has already removed 11 classic A320 planes out of operations and the remaining three such aircrafts will be going out of the fleet by December this year, a senior company official told PTI.<\/p>\n<p>The official said that though these planes are still flying, but they are carrying out limited operations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost of the time these planes are on a stand-by mode and they perform one or two schedule flight in a day,\u201d the official said.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the carrier had planned to retire these planes by March this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai, Disinvestment-bound flag carrier Air India will phase out its remaining three Classic A320 planes, which are nearly three decade old, from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31326,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[410],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31325"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31327,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31325\/revisions\/31327"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}