{"id":3809,"date":"2019-02-20T07:43:39","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T13:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=3809"},"modified":"2019-02-20T07:43:44","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T13:43:44","slug":"airbus-says-a320neo-india-deliveries-back-on-track","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=3809","title":{"rendered":"Airbus Says A320neo India Deliveries Back on Track"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Bengaluru\n (Reuters) &#8211; European aircraft maker Airbus deliveries of its A320neo \naircraft are back on track in India with fewer problems being seen with \nthe narrowbody jet&#8217;s Pratt &amp; Whitney engines, a senior company \nexecutive said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Pratt\n has informed Airbus that engine issues have come down by a factor of \nfour in the last 12 months,&#8221; said Airbus&#8217; India head Anand Stanley, on \nthe sidelines of the Aero India airshow in Bengaluru.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last\n month, India&#8217;s aviation safety watchdog forced airlines to make extra \nchecks on their Airbus A320neo aircraft fitted with Pratt &amp; Whitney \nengines, as part of new safety protocols after temporary grounding \norders affected the planes last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>IndiGo, India&#8217;s biggest carrier by market share, and its low-cost rival GoAir, both fly the A320neos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\n aircraft, which entered service in early 2016, boasts significant fuel \nefficiency benefits, but it has been plagued by teething issues with its\n engines that have forced Interglobe Aviation-owned IndiGo and Wadia \nGroup-owned GoAir to regularly ground a number of the planes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This caused a backlog in deliveries of the planes by Airbus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>IndiGo\n has over 60 A320neos in its fleet and is one of Airbus&#8217; biggest global \ncustomer with over 400 more A320neo and A321neo jets on order. GoAir has\n about 30 A320neos in its fleet and over 100 more of the jets ordered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stanley\n said that the reliability rate on A320neo engines is now 99.6 percent \nand that it has retrofitted engines of about 95 percent of the A320neos \nin service. It expects to finish work on the remainder in the next two \nmonths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Reporting by Aditi Shah; Writing by Euan Rocha; editing by Emelia Sithole-Matarise)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/A320neo_Indigo.jpg?fit=640%2C446\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3810\" width=\"616\" height=\"429\" srcset=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/A320neo_Indigo.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/A320neo_Indigo-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/A320neo_Indigo-768x535.jpg 768w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/A320neo_Indigo-1024x713.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 616px) 100vw, 616px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European aircraft maker Airbus deliveries of its A320neo  aircraft are back on track in India with fewer problems being seen with  the narrowbody jet&#8217;s Pratt &#038; Whitney engines, a senior company  executive said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[798,797,89,2203,1397,868,1103],"tags":[524,425,1072,47,464,1279,160,3479,2956,335,1180,3477,745,805,710,743,589,2421,412,526,1288,2120,3478,3476,527],"class_list":["post-3809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airbus-news","category-airline-news","category-aviation-news","category-finance-news","category-stock-news","category-transportation-news","category-travel-news","tag-a320neo","tag-a321neo","tag-aero","tag-airbus","tag-aircraft","tag-airshow","tag-aviation","tag-bengaluru","tag-deliveries","tag-engine","tag-european","tag-goair","tag-group","tag-india","tag-indigo","tag-interglobe","tag-jet","tag-maker","tag-news","tag-pratt","tag-reuters","tag-safety","tag-wadia","tag-watchdog","tag-whitney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3811,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3809\/revisions\/3811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}