{"id":911948,"date":"2025-03-06T11:05:59","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T05:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=911948"},"modified":"2025-03-06T11:05:59","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T05:35:59","slug":"emirates-says-aircraft-retrofit-program-now-pushing-5-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/03\/06\/emirates-says-aircraft-retrofit-program-now-pushing-5-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"Emirates Says Aircraft Retrofit Program Now Pushing $5 Billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) &#8212; Emirates President Tim Clark said the company is spending close to $5 billion in cash to retrofit existing aircraft like the Airbus SE A380 jumbo or the Boeing Co.\u2019s 777 to bridge delays with new models on order, particularly from the US manufacturer. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve had to take control of our own destiny,\u201d Clark told journalists at a meeting in Berlin on Wednesday. \u201cI could see the problems on the horizon, so we took the decision then, and thank God we did.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) &#8212; Emirates President Tim Clark said the company is spending close to $5 billion in cash to retrofit existing aircraft like the Airbus SE A380 jumbo or the Boeing Co.\u2019s 777 to bridge delays with new models on order, particularly from the US manufacturer. \u201cWe\u2019ve had to take control of our own destiny,\u201d Clark told journalists at a meeting in Berlin on Wednesday. \u201cI could see the problems on the horizon, so we took the decision then, and thank God we did.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-911948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=911948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=911948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=911948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=911948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}