{"id":19315,"date":"2022-03-26T18:26:07","date_gmt":"2022-03-26T12:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/?p=19315"},"modified":"2022-03-26T18:41:58","modified_gmt":"2022-03-26T13:11:58","slug":"air-india-likely-purchase-30-aircraft-worth-10-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/26\/air-india-likely-purchase-30-aircraft-worth-10-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"Air India likely to buy 30 aircraft Worth $10 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap has-normal-font-size\"><strong>Tata Group-owned Air India Ltd. is looking at purchasing as many as 30 widebody aircraft, the engine maker for Airbus SE\u2019s A350 jets told, an order that will permit the former state-run carrier to aggressively pursue international development. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"873\" height=\"582\" src=\"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/shutterstock_494240989.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/shutterstock_494240989.jpg 873w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/shutterstock_494240989-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/shutterstock_494240989-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/shutterstock_494240989-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/shutterstock_494240989-750x500.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 873px) 100vw, 873px\" \/><figcaption><strong>Aviationa2z.com<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em> \u201cI believe they are looking at something up to 30 aircraft, could be as big as that, which is a big order. A truly big order,\u201d Chris Davie, a senior vice president in the Asia Pacific for Rolls-Royce Holdings Plc told in an interview on the sidelines of the airshow in Hyderabad.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li> An order for 30 A350-100 jets could be valued at about $9.5 billion at 2018 sticker prices, although large discounts are common in big plane purchases. Based on prices provided by aircraft appraiser Avitas Inc., the market value of 30 such jets in 2021 was $4.5 billion.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Davie declined to comment on a timeline for any potential order but told his team has accompanied Airbus officials when the planemaker flew an A350 to multiple <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Indian_people\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener sponsored nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Indian<\/a> cities showcasing the jet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Also, read  <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/25\/aviation-minister-indian-airline-intends-to-add-100-120-new-aircraft-every-year\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener sponsored nofollow\">Aviation Minister: Indian airlines intends to add 100-120 new aircraft every year<\/a>   <\/strong><\/li><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/06\/gold-biscuits-rs-1-37-crore-found-hidden-under-passenger-seat-on-indigo-flight-from-dubai\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener sponsored nofollow\">Gold biscuits  Rs 1.37 crore found hidden under passenger seat on Indigo flight from Dubai<\/a>  <\/strong><\/li><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/21\/air-india-technicians-called-of-strike-as-ministry-gives-assurance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener sponsored nofollow\">Air India technicians called off strike as ministry gives assurance<\/a><\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-a350-jets-to-local-carriers-in-recent-days\">A350 jets to local carriers in recent days <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The European planemaker has doubled down on efforts to sell its A350 jets to local carriers in recent days, with a specific eye on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airindia.in\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener sponsored nofollow\">Air India<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> The airline, which under its new owners &#8212; India\u2019s largest conglomerate &#8212; needs to revamp its fleet of Boeing 777 jets to take on its profitable local rivals such as Indigo and Spicejet Ltd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-air-india-about-an-order-for-a-raft-of-new-jets\">Air India about an order for a raft of new jets <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>Airbus and Boeing Co. are in&nbsp;talks&nbsp;with the new owners of Air India about an order for a raft of new jets, Bloomberg News reported last month. <\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Those discussions involved both A350-900s and 787-9 Dreamliners. Boeing dominates the widebody fleet in India while Airbus doesn\u2019t have a single active consumer.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"553\" height=\"223\" src=\"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/14_1_about-air-india.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17032\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/14_1_about-air-india.jpg 553w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/14_1_about-air-india-300x121.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 553px) 100vw, 553px\" \/><figcaption><strong>Air India |Aviationa2z.com<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Singapore-based Davie\u2019s travel to India was aimed at meeting key players in the Indian market, and holding discussions with Air India and Tata Sons Pvt., the $103 billion salt-to-software conglomerate that bought the chronically unprofitable airline from the government before this year.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Thank you <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Stay updated with Aviationa2z.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tata Group-owned Air India Ltd. is looking at purchasing as many as 30 widebody aircraft, the engine maker for Airbus SE\u2019s A350 jets told, an order that will permit the former state-run carrier to aggressively pursue international development. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16322,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6761,416],"tags":[82,313,152,392,246,3116,79,393],"class_list":{"0":"post-19315","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-quick-updates","9":"tag-air-india","10":"tag-aircraft","11":"tag-airlines","12":"tag-airlines-news","13":"tag-akasa-air","14":"tag-akasa-airline","15":"tag-aviation","16":"tag-aviation-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19315"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19322,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19315\/revisions\/19322"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}