Air India to get its 23rd Boeing 787 in Jan 2017
The Dollar Business Bureau Air India will conclude the procurement of 27 Boeing 787 aircraft before April 2017, and in early January, it will take delivery of the 23rd Boeing Dreamliner. “We will be taking delivery of 23rd B-787 Dreamliner on January 9 and hope to have the last batch of four more Dreamliners by the end of this fiscal year. That will have us completing the process that started more than a decade ago in 2006," Vinod Hejmadi, Finance Director, Air India, told PTI. In 2016, American aviation major delivered only two Dreamliners to Air India against the plan of three. Boeing was supposed to give the delivery of the 23rd plane in the month of November or December. In January 2006, Air India had put an ...
AI to launch AHD-LHR-EWR flight, expand aircraft fleet
PTI With an aim to connect more global destinations, leading state-run airline Air India will launch Ahmedabad-London-Newark flight from August 15 and Delhi-Madrid in December, and also plans to expand its fleet size in next four years, a top official said today. "We will be launching the Ahmedabad-London-Newark flight from August 15 and Delhi-Madrid from December as part of our growth plan," Air India Chairman and Managing Director, Ashwini Lohani, told reporters here. Lohani arrived here for taking part in a programme on the occasion of opening of AI area manager's office, which was inaugurated by Madhya Pradesh Chief Secretary Antony DeSa. "We have launched a number of new flights. We have already launched flights from Delhi for San ...
AI to buy more wide-body planes to expand global network
Source: PTI Air India is mulling expanding its Boeing wide-body aircraft feet to implement its plans of adding a host of new destinations in its overseas network in a couple of years. The airline is expected to draw up a firm plan in this regard early next fiscal, highly-placed airline sources said. As of now, the government-owned carrier has 40 wide-body or twin-aisle planes in its fleet - 15 Boeing 777s, 21 B-787 (Dreamliners) and jumbo B-747, as against 68 Airbus single - aisle A-320 family aircraft. "We have not added too many wide-body planes in the fleet in the last couple of years, except the induction of Dreamliners from the 2005 order. We are now considering expanding this fleet as ...
